The Greek government will, by all accounts, extend pandemic-related restrictions affecting places of worship in the country for another week. The current framework for public assembly restrictions, and other public health precautions to prevent exposure to the Covid-19, virus expires on Monday, Jan. 25. Currently, the presence of worshippers during Church services is allowed, but…

The Church today venerates the memory of Timothy, the Apostle of the 70. He became the disciple of the Apostle Paul and followed the latter during the entire period of the Apostle’s preaching. Afterwards, Timothy was consecrated by Paul as first Bishop of the Church in Ephesus. Under the supervision of John the Evangelist, who…

Bishop Visarion prayed with the inmates from Tulcea Maximum Security Prison and offered them gifts last Saturday. At the prison’s “Holy Apostles Peter and şi Paul” Chapel, the prisoners attended the Divine Liturgy celebrated by the bishop on the feast of the Veneration of the Precious Chains of the Holy Apostle Peter. The hierarch spoke…

The students of the Orthodox Pedagogical High School “Anastasia Popescu” in Bucharest continued this year the tradition of placing a garland of red carnations on the shoulders of the statue of Mihai Eminescu in front of the Romanian Athenaeum to mark Romania’s National Culture Day. Prof. Monica Șerbănescu, the director of the high school, posted…

It is unnatural and unworthy when we do not thank God for the gift of life and health and the benefits received from Him and when we do not thank the benefactors who helped us in life in various difficult times,” Patriarch Daniel said during his sermon last Sunday. In his speech at the Chapel…

The Imvrians Society of Melbourne has embarked on a world first – to create an exhibition that will commemorate the role of their home island in Australia’s Anzac story and the Gallipoli Campaign. Imvrians Society Committee Member George Xinos is excited that the Club has embarked on this important project that aims to educate the…

The region of the Jezreel Valley bears many testimonies of ancient Christian life. A 1,500-year-old Greek inscription bearing the name “Christ, born of Mary” was unearthed in northern Israel, the Antiquities Authority announced on Wednesday. The archaeologists discovered the inscription engraved at the entrance of an impressive building from the Byzantine or early Islamic period,…

The Ecumenical Patriarchate on Constantinople on Thursday congratulated new US President Joe Biden on his inauguration as the 46th president of the United States, while also praising two executive orders signed almost immediately after the new commander-and-chief sat down at the White House’s Oval Office, including the lifting of a travel ban imposed against 13…

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