Interest in IV Next Exceeds Expectations Program Expanding to Include 18 year old High School Seniors (Class of 2021) Due to overwhelming demand for the 2021 IV Next Program, Ionian Village is expanding the program to include 18 year old High School Seniors. All interested participants must be fully vaccinated against the COVID-19 virus and…

Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Χριστὸς Ἀνέστη! [and in response: Ἀληθῶς Ἀνέστη!] Christ is Risen! [and in response: Truly He is Risen!] I am delighted to once again be worshipping with you here in this historic Cathedral of Saints Constantine and Helen in Brooklyn. Every time I come here, I sense the great history of…

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The Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, this week conveyed a message to all the faithful, on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Crete in May 1941. The Archbishop of Australia underlined that “…this proud struggle for freedom and dignity, and the heavy toll paid in blood by our ancestors is…

The Russian Orthodox Church this week announced that it has located some 7,000 abandoned churches and chapels throughout the vast country. In a statement, the head of a Patriarchal Council-affiliated committee of experts, Bishop Lipesk, said the goal is to now restore the places of worship. The Russian Church in 2019 announced that it has…

The monastic Mother Galaktia of Crete reposed in the Lord on Wednesday. An exodios funeral service will be held today at the Holy Monastery of the Panaghia Kalyviani, outside in Irakleio prefecture.

The Greek foreign ministry on Wednesday evening issued a stern reply to an earlier announcement by Turkey’s foreign ministry, which essentially disputed the Pontian Greek Genocide between 1916 and 1923 and insolently claimed that official Greece was distorting history. May 19 is annually commemorated as a day of remembrance of the Pontian Genocide, when more…

A large wildfire west of the greater Athens area, near the resort town of Loutraki on the Corinth Gulf, was burning hundreds of acres of pine forest in a remote semi-mountainous region over the past 24 hours. As a precaution, the Holy Monasteries of St. Paraskevi and St. John Makrinos were evacuated, while later on…

The Church today venerates the memory of the Holy Martyr Thalleleus, who achieved the crown of martyrdom in the late 3rd century. This saint is one of the Holy Unmercenaries.