The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, on Thursday received a delegation of lawmakers who are members of the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of Orthodoxy. Members of the assembly emphasized the need to inform international public opinion over the insolent decision last year by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to reconvert the iconic Hagia…

The Church today venerates the memory of John the Russian of Evia. Today is also the feast day of the Holy Hieromartyr Helladius.

Earlier this month, the Albanian leadership of Kosovo called upon Europa Nostra to remove Visoki Dečani Monastery from its list of the seven most endangered cultural heritage sites in Europe, saying the Serbian Orthodox site was added under political pressure, and that its inclusion in the list hurts the image of Kosovo. This week, Kosovo…

The Saint Maximos the Greek Institute, with the support of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopaidi, is introducing the ‘Evyenios Voulgaris’ Scholarship Programme. Evyenios Voulgaris (1716-1806) served as principal of the Athoniada School, which had been established by the Holy Monastery of Vatopaidi. In his day, he was the greatest and most important Greek…

The European Commission and Europa Nostra have announced the 2021 winners of the European cultural heritage awards. A Romanian 18th-century wooden church in the Carpathian foothills that was destroyed by fire and carefully restored in recent years was announced as one of the winners on Tuesday. The church which is to be found in the…

On Saturday, 22 May 2021, on the feast day of the Translation of the Relics of Saint Faher Nicholas, His Grace Bishop Arsenije celebrated the Holy Liturgy in the monastery of Saint Nicholas in Kursumlija. The Bishop was concelebrated by protopresbyter-staurophor Vladimir Vukasinovic and clergy of the Diocese of Nis.   spc.rs

On Monday, 24 May 2021, at the Cathedral church in Trebinje, the feast day of Saint Cyril and Methodius was celebrated. Protopresbyter-staurophor Boris Banduka served the Holy Liturgy with the concelebration of the clergy of the Cathedral church and the faithful people. During the Holy Liturgy, the servant of God Mary entered the holy community…

Today marks fifty-four years since the referendum that became a milestone in the reconciliation of the wider Australian community with the country’s indigenous people. An important breakthrough in this process was the historic decision of 3 June 1992, by which the Supreme Court of Australia justified Eddie Koiki Mabo, recognising the land rights of the…

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