A variety of very high-quality videos posted by the Athens-based Foundation of the Hellenic World on its YouTube channel include the documentaries “Hagia Sophia: 1500 years of History” along with the production “Asia Minor: What Time Has not Erased”, as well as numerous other digital audiovisual materials.             

The Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Most Divine Beatitude Theodoros II, on Friday received visiting Greek Defense Minister Nikos Panagiotopoulos at the Patriarchal Monastery of St. Savas the Sanctified, in Alexandria. The Greek minister is in the North African country to observe the final phase of a joint military exercise by…

Deutsche Welle’s Turkish service this week confirmed that UNESCO wants to examine official Turkey’s alterations to the Hagia Sophia and the Chora Church, both World Heritage Sites and iconic Orthodox basilicas that the Erdogan regime reconverted into mosques. DW quoted the online news portal Duvar. The United Nation’s cultural body has said that it wants…

Churches remained closed to worshippers on Friday for the feast day of St. Barbara the Great Martyr, while annual litanies and commemorations have been cancelled due to restrictions to prevent exposure to the Covid-19 virus. An Archieratical Divine Liturgy was held on Friday morning at the Cathedral of St. Barbara in the old quarter of…

The Church today venerates the memory of Barbara the Great Martyr. Saint Barbara was from Heliopolis of Phoenicia, modern-day Lebanon, and lived during the reign of Maximian. She achieved the crown of martyrdom in 290 after suffering many torments for not renouncing her faith. In Orthodox hagiography St. Barbara is portrayed with a chalice in…

A miracle occurred in the Philippines earlier this month, as testified to by the local hierarch. On November 13, parishioners of the Church of St. Seraphim of Sarov in Arakan on the island of Mindanao noticed something strange on several icons after the evening service. As the Diocese of the Philippines and Vietnam reports, the parishioners found…

On November 30, 1980, His Eminence Metropolitan Mark (Arndt), then an archimandrite, of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia was consecrated to the episcopacy and appointed Bishop of Munich and Southern Germany. Yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of his episcopal ministry, for which he was congratulated by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and…

On December 1, 2020, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros visited the Christmas “Tree of Hope” In Athens Square, Astoria as a kick off to the Christmas Season. His Eminence remarked “Today we contribute to the spirit of Christmas. As Greeks, as Americans, as Orthodox and as Christians, we are proud to be a member of this…

Vasile Bănescu, the spokesman of the Romanian Patriarchate, commented on the recommendations of the European Commission Christmas services should be replaced with online ceremonies. “The European Commission does not decide and cannot impose anything in the essential sphere of religion; it can only issue recommendations (!) related to encouraging and intensifying protection from the new coronavirus in…