A new project of St. Tikhon’s Monastery has been launched, aiming to provide Orthodox liturgical music for every choir. The Monastery of St. Tikhon of Zadonsk, located in Waymart, Pennsylvania, is the oldest Orthodox monastery in America, founded in 1905 by St. Tikhon, the future Patriarch of Moscow. With the launch of its new music…

In the church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Moscow, the Representation of the Serbian Orthodox Church, on January 27, 2021, the great feast day of Saint Sava, the first Serbian Archbishop, was solemnly marked. His Grace Bishop Antonije of Moravica served theHoly Hierarchal Liturgy with the concelerbation of Archimandrite Seraphim (Shemyatovsky) –…

His Grace Bishop Jovan of Sumadija and administrator of the Archbishopric of Belgrade and Karlovci, served the Holy Liturgy in the church dedicated to that great benefactor of God in Zemun, on on January 31, 2021, on the feast of St. Athanasius the Great.(phоto gallery). Archpriest-staurophors Petar Lukic and Djordje Trajkovic , archpriest Drasko Tepavac,…

The Hellenic Society Prometheas  hosted online celebration of Greek Letters Day, under the auspices of the Embassy of Greece. The celebration  began with greetings by H.E. Ambassador of Greece to the United States, Alexandra Papadopoulou, and the Secretary General for Public Diplomacy and Greeks Abroad of the Hellenic Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ioannis Chrysoulakis. Our…

Moscow, February 1, Interfax – The Russian Orthodox Church has condemned the use of children and teenagers as a means to a political end. “Luring children and adolescents in political actions is a totally unacceptable violation of civil law and order, and I think that those responsible must be held to account,” the head of…

The Pancretan Association of Melbourne held their annual blessing and Vasilopita cutting for 2021 on Saturday, January 30 and it definitely didn’t disappoint. Just under 100 attendees were treated to Greek food and Cretan music from local Melbourne musicians, Sifis Tsourdalakis, George Sevastakis, Tony Iliou and Paddy Montgomery. This was followed by the traditional cutting…

An extraordinary meeting was held at the building of Metropolis of Neapolis and Stavroupolis in Thessaloniki, Greece on Sunday chaired by Citizen Protection Minister Nikos Hardalias and the president of National Public Health Organisation Panagiotis Arkoumaneas after the detection of the South African COVID-19 strain in the area. “The first detection of the mutation was…

On Friday, 16/29 January 2021, the Patriarchate celebrated the feast of the veneration of the Sacred Chain of the glorious chief of the Apostles Peter. On this feast, the Church and especially the Church of Jerusalem commemorates the event of Apostle Peter’s imprisonment, according to the Book of Acts (Acts 12:1-19). The Church recalls that…

There are now more and more allegations – even by Turkish agents – about the destruction of ancient and Byzantine churches in Turkey, either by arbitrary construction or by treasure hunters in the hope of finding gold and other relics. These churches were abandoned after the Greek Genocide and the population exchange between Greece and Turkey….