Thursday, April 22, 2020, 07:30-09:30 PM Athens Time Dear brothers and sisters, You are invited to participate in the “5th e-Synaxis from Holy Mount Athos with Elder Ephraim and the faithful of Saint Nicholas and Saint John the Apostle Students Church in Cluj-Napoca, Romania”, which will take place Thursday April 22, 2020, 07:30-09:30 PM Athens…

Beloved Brethren and Spiritual Children Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! On April 22, 2013, same as today, our brothers the Bishops of Aleppo, Metropolitans Paul Yazigi and John Ibrahim, were kidnapped. To this day, their case, a real picture rather than a glimpse of the tragedy lived by the people of this East,…

Patriarch Daniel recalled on Sunday the lesson that Christ taught His disciples when He received the request of the apostles James and John to hold worldly positions and pointed out that the Saviour had overturned the selfish logic of worldly thinking; a type of logic encountered even today in contemporary society. Christ showed them that…

A countdown has begun for the debut of the online Pemptousia television, where Internet users will be able to view live programs, on-demand content, live-streaming, features, documentaries, interviews and events related to Orthodoxy around the world.   

The radio station of the Metropolis of Piraeus every Saturday and Sunday broadcasts, in Greek, the program “Sermons from Athos,” with spiritual lectures and homilies by the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi.     

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Wednesday received Bulgaria’s consul general in the Bosporus metropolis, Vassil Valchev. Discussions focused on issues affecting the Mother Church of Constantinople as well as the Bulgarian Orthodox community of Constantinople and fraternal ties between the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Bulgarian Patriarchate.

The arrival of the Holy Fire to Athens, and by extension to all of Greece, from the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem will again take place on Holy Saturday, similar to the past decades, although special procedure will be in effect due to the pandemic. The Holy Fire is expected to be conveyed…

The Holy Synod of the Church of Crete, in taking a different position from the Church of Greece, on Wednesday sent a letter to the relevant education and religious affairs ministry requesting that a pandemic-related curfew extend to 2 a.m. in the early morning hours between the iconic Resurrection Service on Holy Saturday and Easter…

Today is the sixth Wednesday of Great Lend. The Church today venerates the memory of the Holy Hieromartyr Januarius and Those With Him, as well as Our Holy Father Maximian, Patriarch of Constantinople.