St. Georgi Sofiyski Novi (St. George the Newest of Sofia) was born in the town of Kratovo in a Bulgarian family. He was left without a father from an early age and fled to Sofia to avoid forced change of faith. Ottoman rulers in Sofia, however, cunningly tried to lure him into their faith, but…

A sanctification rite for the beginning of the new academic year was performed by Archimandrite Fr. Evmenios Vassilopoulos, the Archiepiscopal Vicar of Northcote, on Monday, at the Greek Orthodox College of St. John, which is located in the greater Melbourne area. After the service, Archimandrite Evmenios read out a message by Archbishop Makarios of Australia…

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill, this week conveyed his greetings to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, on the occasion of Diplomat’s Day, which is celebrated in the vast country every year on February 10. In his message, Patriarch Kirill expressed his support for the minister’s “resistance” – as he said…

Deliberation of an appeal filed by the Church of Greece before the Council of State, the country’s highest administrative court, against pandemic-related restrictions imposed by the state, has been postponed to April 2.

A state-appointed chief imam at the Hagia Sophia, the greatest of all cathedrals of eastern Christendom that was insolently re-converted into a mosque last July, this week maintained that secularism should be removed from the Turkish constitution. The state functionary, identified as Mehmet Boynukalın, said secularism was not included in the Turkish constitutions of 1921…

A US State Department spokesman on Wednesday reiterated that the United States continues to support the reunification of Cyprus on the basis of a bi-zonal and bi-communal federation. The spokesman was queried over the latest inflammatory quip by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who said the island should be permanently divided. In response to a…

Church services in Greece will be held without the presence of worshippers in the greater Athens area at least until Feb. 28, following the imposition of even stricter measures this week in the east Mediterranean nation to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 virus. A surge in the number of new confirmed single-day instances of…

The Church today venerates the memory of Blaise, or Vlasios, the Holy Martyr of Sebastia. Through divine grace this saint healed the diseases of men and beasts, and especially of infants. He contested for the Faith under the Emperor Licinius, in the year 316.

The Holy Synod of the Patriarchate of Georgia held a meeting on Thursday, February 11, 2021. The meeting was led by Patriarch of All Georgia Illia ll. According to the head of the public relations department of the Patriarchate, Archpriest Andria Jagmaidze, the issues discussed at today’s Synod session were related to Davit Gareji and…