St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Theological Seminary in South Canaan, Pennsylvania, recently announced the launch of an annual lecture in honor of St. Nikolai (Velimirović) lecture. The inaugural lecture, “St. Nikolai: His Later Years,” will be given on March 23 by His Grace Bishop Irenej (Dobrijević) of the Eastern American Diocese of the Serbian Orthodox Church, the seminary…

The Greek school of the St. Paul Orthodox parish in Hempstead, New York, commenced events this week for the bicentennial of the Greek Revolution of 1821. Following a Divine Liturgy on the Saturday of the Soul, pupils of the parish’s schools marched in front of the cathedral courtyard, carrying Greek flags and banners.    …

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…