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….

On the evening of January 17th, the Archdiocesan District of Adelaide held its annual Cutting of the Vasilopita service. Delayed by two weeks this year (due to unavoidable circumstances), the service nonetheless went ahead and was extremely well attended. The service was hosted at the Archdiocesan District of Adelaide’s central offices in Glenelg and presided…

Metropolitan Vladimir of Chisinau and all Moldova celebrated Divine Liturgy on the Sunday before Theophany, or, Baptism of the Lord, at the Metropolitan Cathedral in Chisinau. The feast coincided with the commemoration of the 70 Holy Apostles called by Lord Jesus Christ to the mission of bringing the Word of God to people. The arch-pastor…

Today’s Gospel extract refers to the healing of the blind man in the city of Jericho. The element that makes an impression on us is the blind man’s certainty that Christ could heal him. Indeed, in the conversation between Christ and the blind man, we see that even though this man was deprived of sight,…