On January 25, 2021, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk met with H. E. Khaled Shawabkeh, ambassador of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to the Russian Federation, at the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR). They were joined in their talk by Mr. Amjad Al-Momani, deputy ambassador, plenipotentiary minister, from the Jordanian embassy side and…

CONSTANTINOPLE — The Ecumenical Patriarchate will present a series of three webinars in its fourth Halki Summit, entitled, “COVID-19 and Climate Change: Living with and Learning from a Pandemic”. Halki Summit IV sessions will be held as three Zoom webinars on January 26–28, 2021 from 8:00–9:30pm EST each day. The registration link is listed below….

  On January 25 the Greek Orthodox Church celebrates the Feast Day of Saint Gregory the Theologian and Archbishop of Constantinople, who was also one of the Three Holy Hierarchs, along with Saint Basil the Great and Saint John Chrysostom. Saint Gregory the Theologian, Archbishop of Constantinople, a great Father and teacher of the Church,…

Last week, Member for Northcote, Kat Theophanous, joined Vice Chancellor, Professor John Dewar AO and Professor Rhiannon Evans to announce $40,000 in funding for La Trobe’s Greek Language Program to establish ten one-off student scholarships in 2021. Ms Theophanous worked in partnership with the University to design the proposal and secure funding from the Victorian…

South Australia’s Port Pirie regional council has recognised Greek Australian Fred (Fotis) Seindanis with a Certificate of Merit for his contribution to the city’s ninety-six-year-old Greek community. A member for the past 50 years, Fred has served as a treasurer of the St George Greek community, a cook at the Hellenic Centre for the past…

Addis Ababa January 20/2021(ENA) Greek Orthodox Church Archbishop Daniel said the youth need to preserve Ethiopian Epiphany for generations to come. The archbishop, who attended Timket here in Addis Ababa, said “everybody needs to visit Ethiopia to live this special tradition. This is a big tradition and we need to keep it protected like our…

Just six weeks ago the first democratically elected government in the history of Montenegro was ushered into office, swept into power through mass, peaceful civic protests that lasted close to a year. These vast congregations were powered by dissent to a so-called “Law on Freedom of Religion” which, unlike its title, in reality took aim…

In Moscow, the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation handed over several early-18th-century icons to Metropolitan Tikhon of Pskov and Porkhov, the abbot of the Pskov Caves Monastery. At the request of His Eminence Metropolitan Tikhon (Shevkunov) of Pskov and Porkhov, a search was undertaken for a number of unique icons that…

Homily By His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America At the Divine Liturgy on the Fourteenth Sunday of Saint Luke Saint Basil Greek Orthodox Church New Haven, Connecticut Beloved Brothers and Sisters in the Lord, I am very happy to be back in New Haven – with you, the devout faithful of the Saint Basil community….