Reports in Athens this week have the relevant civil protection authority extending, for another week, pandemic-related restrictions in the greater Athens area, or alternatively, easing restrictions on some activities, namely, in the retail sector, as of March 1. Final decisions will be announced on Friday. Meanwhile, the level of immunity in the country against…

The Church today commemorates the Finding of the Precious Relics of the Holy Martyrs, in Constantinople’s Eugenius Quarter. The holy relics of these saints were found when Thomas I was Patriarch of Constantinople.

Russian society has become too accustomed to legalized abortions, but including abortions in national mortality statistics could help change public perception, believes Maria Studenikina, the head of the Maternity Protection Division of the Russian Church’s Synodal Department for Social Service and Charity. Studenikina, who also serves as director of the Orthodox Mercy service’s Home for…

Two ice storms wreaked havoc on West Virginia earlier this month, hitting Wayne Country particularly hard. Holy Cross Monastery (Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia) in the town of Wayne, West Virginia, is making an appeal to the Orthodox faithful after suffering severe damage in the storms. The monastery reported yesterday that it has been…

The Georgian Orthodox parish of the Iveron Icon of the Mother of God in Toronto was founded in 2010. Now, 11 years later, the community has fulfilled its long-held dream of acquiring its own church building. Ever since its founding with the blessing of His Eminence Metropolitan Dimitri of Batumi and Lazeti, who oversaw Georgian…

Resplendent photographs of the Greek Presidential Guard, known as Evzones, standing proudly in front of renowned monuments such as the Parthenon, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Greece and even the Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, were all on display at The Hellenic Club in Canberra over the weekend. They’re part of a special…

On Thursday, February 18, the five women who were shot dead in Kizlyar, Dagestan immediately following the Forgiveness Sunday service at St. George Cathedral in 2018 were prayerfully commemorated on the third anniversary of the terrorist attack on the church. With the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Varlaam of Makhachkala and Grozny, the Divine Liturgy…

Nun Iosifia and the small community of the monastery with its workers and benefactors” sign a message of thanks to those who contributed to the establishment of the Romanian Orthodox Monastery of The Life-Giving Spring and St. Ciaran in Ireland. The monastery was founded on the site of a former Catholic monastic settlement that belonged…

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America Homily at the Divine Liturgy on the Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee The Beginning of Triodion Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Church, Whitestone, New York   Beloved in the Lord, It is in a hymn of this morning’s Orthros service that for the first time this year we are…