MESSAGE OF HIS EMINENCE ARCHBISHOP NIKITAS OF THYATEIRA AND GREAT BRITAIN FOR THE BEGINNING OF THE HOLY AND GREAT LENT My son, deprive not the poor of his living, and do not keep needy eyes waiting. Do not grieve the one who is hungry, nor anger a man in want. Do not add to the…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Sunday will receive visiting Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, on Sunday at the Patriarchate’s Fanar-district seat. His Eminence will travel to the Bosporus metropolis, the ancient seat of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, to attend March 20 enthronement of the newly elected Metropolitan of Geron…

A new Russian-Serbian foundation is ready to begin working in Serbia, restoring an Orthodox church and arranging the transfer of relics from Russia to Serbia for Holy Pascha. The head of the new foundation, Natalia Shatilina, is already known in Serbia as a representative of the Russian Bells organization, with whom she worked with the…

The Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece this unveiled the liturgical text of an anniversary Doxology service, on the occasion of this year’s bicentennial of the beginning of the Greek Revolution in 1821, to Holy Metropolises around the country and to the Archdiocese of Athens. The liturgical text was posted on the…

Orthodox missionaries continue to persevere in one of the most impoverished and strife-plagued regions of the planet, with clerics and missionaries recently holding the Divine Liturgy in the remote village of Nkonko, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo province of Kananga. According to an announcement by the Orthodox Metropolis of Kananga, the journey to…

The Romanian Patriarchate’s Metropolitan of Cluj, Maramureș and Sălaj, Andrei, this week received the Israeli ambassador to the country, David Saranga, with, among others, the issue of religious tourism and pilgrimages discusses. An announcement by the Holy Metropolis later stated that the diplomat assured the Metropolitan of Israel’s volition to sign a bilateral agreement with…

Yet another instance of vandalism against a place of worship was reported from the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki, with the Byzantine-era cathedral of St. Panteleimonas targeted this time. Unknown perpetrators desecrated the cathedral’s interior, scrawling spray-painted slogans. Cathedrals and chapels have become a regular target of late of so-styled anarchists in central Thessaloniki, with…

The historic St. Nicholas Kaltezon Monastery in the south-central Peloponnese continues to face the ravages of time, with a portion of its western side collapsing earlier this month, as restoration and repairs are now urgently needed. The 17th century monastery, in mountainous Arcadia prefecture, hosted the first national assembly of Greek revolutionaries (the Peloponnesian Senate)…

“People will be judged for inhumanity,” Patriarch Daniel stressed during his homily on the Meatfare Sunday of the Last Judgement. The Patriarch quoted a homily by St. John Chrysostom, where the great hierarch imagines a continuation of the dialogue in the Gospel passage about the Last Judgment: “For I was hungry and you gave me…