The first part of an online Synaxis, or assembly, with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, with Orthodox theology students in the United States, has been posted today on the pages of the online magazine Pemptousia. The assembly was held on November 13 last month. 

The second annual international conference on religious diplomacy, entitled “Religions and Challenges for the New Decade”, commenced on Wednesday, with this year’s conference, however, being conducted online due to the coronavirus pandemic. On the occasion of the conference, the president of the Athens-based Institute for Foreign Relations, Loukas Katsonos, spoke with the Orthodoxia News Agency…

The Church today commemorates the Conception, by St. Anna, of the Most Holy Theotokos, the Virgin Mary.

The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, spoke by phone on Tuesday evening with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, with the object of discussions focusing directly on how upcoming Christmas services will be celebrated by the Church of Greece. Currently, and up until Dec. 14, services in all places of worship in…

On Tuesday, December 7, 2020, His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira and Great Britain, Exarch of the Ecumenical Patriarch, received Mr. Jonathan Hellewell LVO, Special Advisor to the Prime Minister for Faith Communities, accompanied by the Ms. Elena Narozanski, Special Advisor to the Prime Minister in the No. 10 Policy Unit, at the Archdiocesan Headquarters….

  The year behind us was remarkable in so many ways, and, much the same, this year’s celebration of our holy father Sebastian of Jackson was no exception. Devotees and pilgrims from his ancestral Herceg Novi, Jackson’s sister city, from his native San Francisco, from Los Angeles, where he founded the first church and served…

Thanks to the kindness of parishioners from two Orthodox parishes in the town of Avrig in Sibiu County, Romania, more than 100 needy children received generous gifts in honor of St. Nicholas’ Day this year. The philanthropic Joy of St. Nicholas campaign, held between November 15 and December 6, gathered clothes, boots, candy, and toys…

The Polish Orthodox Church issued a statement yesterday on the “Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence,” commonly known as the Istanbul Convention, noting that while it has praiseworthy elements, it also unfortunately departs from the Biblical conception of mankind, and thus the Church cannot support it. The…

UN Secretary-General’s Message for 2020 Genocide is the most heinous of crimes, encompassing all it touches in a tsunami of hate and destruction. It is an assault on our most fundamental shared values. Today, as we remember and honour the victims of the crime of genocide, let us remember that the imperative to prevent genocide…