Today, March 11, marks the anniversary of the death in 1978 of Sofia Vembo, the legendary singer and actress whose voice is associated with the Greek Army’s victory against Italian fascist forces in the early stages of WWII on the Albanian front. A year ago, in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of Greece’s entry into…

The only cleric moto-paramedic employed by Greece’s national ambulance service, Fr. Apostolos Damkalis, spoke with the online Pemptousia.fm radio this week, where he discussed the dual calling that he fulfills on a daily basis, for the past several years.    

Thursday marks the one-year anniversary of the imposition of the first pandemic-related restrictions in Greece on public assembly, non-essential movement outdoors and much of the retail sector. The year that passed witnessed strict to looser restrictions on Church-going and religious services, with an additional repercussion – beyond preventing the faithful from worshipping in cathedrals and…

The Church today venerates the memory of Theodora the Righteous.  

A pilot program has begun in Russia to digitalize archives and artifacts related to Russian Orthodox Churches destroyed during communist rule in the vast country up until 1990, along with an electronic registrar of the country’s cultural and ecclesiastical monuments.    

The online platform Pemptousia will host the first online Archontariki with the Metropolitan of Aetolia and Acarnania, His Eminence Kosmas, today, March 11, beginning at 19.30 Athens time. Archontariki in Greek means a monastery’s guest house. His Eminence will speak on the Great and Holy Lent, which begins on Monday, a period of fasting, prayer,…

For Father Leonidas, a priest of Coburg’s Greek Orthodox Parish Of The Presentation Of Our Lord, service begins outside the church. Within a decade, the boundaries of Fr Leonidas’ Parish have expanded so much that they can now accommodate anyone in need, be it spiritually or physically, regardless of their religion, race, nationality and social…

On Tuesday, 24 February /9 March 2021, His Beatitude our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos had a pastoral telecommunication through zoom with His Eminence Archbishop Christophoros of Kyriakoupolis and the Clergy of Jordan. The opening of the teleconference was done by His Beatitude with the following address: “Fight the good fight of faith, lay…

His Grace Bishop Vasilije of Srem and the Serbian Orthodox Seminary of Saint Arsenije in Sremski Karlovci were visited by Mr. Petar Petkovic, Director of the Office for Kosovo and Metohija; and Mileta Radojevic, Ph.D., Adviser to the Minister of Education for religious teaching and education. on 9 March 2021. In a cordial conversation, Bishop…