More than 340 million Christians were severely persecuted in 2020 and the phenomenon worsened during the coronavirus pandemic, announced last week Portes Ouvertes, the Frech partner of Open Doors International. The numbers have gone up since the 2019 report, which found 260 million Christians persecuted globally. The organization monitors all the incidents, from daily soft oppression to…

A Christian Orthodox organization from Sidney, St Ypomoni Family and Friends Ministry, launched a short film competition for children. The initiative aims to strengthen their faith and make them reflect on the main message of the Gospel: love of God and of one’s neighbour. “Fruits of the Spirit” is the theme of this inaugural edition. The contest…

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The Metropolitan of Arta, in the country’s northwest, His Eminence Kallinikos, this week gave an interview to the online radio station Pemptousia.fm, where he spoke on the life and works of 16th century St. Maximus the Greek. St. Maximus a monk, scholar and linguist, whose principal role in the translation of the Scriptures and philosophical–theological…

A 1,500-year-old inscription in Greek, bearing the name “Christ, born of Mary” was unearthed in northern Israel, and specifically, in the Jezreel Valley, the country’s antiquities authority announced on Wednesday. Archaeologists discovered the inscription engraved at the entrance of an impressive building from the Byzantine or early Islamic era, featuring mosaics decorated in a geometric…

The Patriarch Alexandria and All Africa, His Most Divine Beatitude Theodoros II, this week joined the Consul General of Greece in Alexandria, Athanasios Kotsionis, as well as the Secretary-General of the Greek Community in the metropolis, Dimitris Kavouras, in a ceremony paying tribute to the benefactors of the community. Moreover, the ceremony was accompanied by…

The Greek government will, by all accounts, extend pandemic-related restrictions affecting places of worship in the country for another week. The current framework for public assembly restrictions, and other public health precautions to prevent exposure to the Covid-19, virus expires on Monday, Jan. 25. Currently, the presence of worshippers during Church services is allowed, but…

The Church today venerates the memory of Timothy, the Apostle of the 70. He became the disciple of the Apostle Paul and followed the latter during the entire period of the Apostle’s preaching. Afterwards, Timothy was consecrated by Paul as first Bishop of the Church in Ephesus. Under the supervision of John the Evangelist, who…

Bishop Visarion prayed with the inmates from Tulcea Maximum Security Prison and offered them gifts last Saturday. At the prison’s “Holy Apostles Peter and şi Paul” Chapel, the prisoners attended the Divine Liturgy celebrated by the bishop on the feast of the Veneration of the Precious Chains of the Holy Apostle Peter. The hierarch spoke…