The Church today venerates the memory of the 14,000 infants, the Holy Innocents, slain by the villainous Herod in Bethlehem. Today is also the feast day of Our Righteous Father Marcellus, Abbot of the Monastery of the Unsleeping Ones.

An anxiously awaited amendment to a controversial law passed by the previous Montenegro government were ratified by a majority of deputies in the small Adriatic country’s parliament this week. The law, which had been billed as dealing with religious freedoms, was sharply criticized and strongly opposed by the Orthodox Church in Montenegro, with hierarchs warning…

The Metropolitan of Kastoria Seraphim reposed in the Lord in the early morning hours of Tuesday, at the age of 61. The reposed Metropolitan had tested positive for Covid-19 in early December and was transferred to a military hospital in the northern city of Thessaloniki on Dec. 8 as a precaution. Subsequently, attending physicians recommended…

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On Monday, December 28, 2020, the online magazine Pemptousia co-organized the first e-meeting, or assembly, from Mount Athos with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, and the Orthodox and Greek Tradition Group of the University of Cyprus. A simultaneous translation was available from Greek to both English…

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel attended the Divine Liturgy at the historical chapel of his patriarchal residence on the Sunday after the Nativity of the Lord. His Beatitude explained the gospel passage’s spiritual meanings about the Flight of the Child Jesus into Egypt in his homily. Egypt, a country of idolatry and slavery, would become several…

The online platform Pemptousia and the Orthodoxia Νews Αgency continue to post documentaries, features and news footage from the archives of the St. Maximus the Greek Institute, with a new item posted every day at 9 p.m. Athens time. Videos include a procession of the Holy Cincture of the Theotokos, the Virgin Mary, to various…

An illustrated and deluxe ecclesiastical calendar for 2021 was again published by the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi. The impressive 2021 calendar is dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the beginning of the Greek War of Independence.     

New restrictive measures in Austria will extend to Jan. 17, with the Holy Metropolis of Austria announcing a new framework of rules for the ecclesiastical and liturgical life of the Church, and the faithful, during the specific period. As with previous measures, Church services will be held without the presence of worshippers, although they will…