Watch our news bulletin in English with Charilaos Tzannis: 

A feature on the recently reposed in the Lord Mother Filothei, the abbess of the Roussanou monastery in the Meteora rock formations of central Greece, is posted today on the online platform Pemptousia.

Bulgarian Tourism Minister Mariana Nikolova this week visited the Bachkovo Monastery of Dormition of the Holy Mother of God, one of the oldest Orthodox monasteries in all of Europe, which was founded in 1083. The specific ministry has over the past few years promoted religious tourism and pilgrimages to the predominately Orthodox Christian nation, with…

The Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Eminence Hilarion, this week again referred to the very difficult situation faced by Christians in war-torn Syria. Hilarion, who is also the head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external Church relations, noted that Christians for centuries lived next to, and in harmony, with their Muslim neighbors in the ancient…

The Erdogan-led Turkish government this week took offense to statements by the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, given during a television interview broadcast last week, where the latter touched on the phenomenon of Islamists — and despite the fact that the Archdiocese of Athens issued a clear clarification regarding the meaning…

A new joint ministerial decision regarding Covid-19 lockdown restrictions in Greece went into effect on Monday and will continue until Jan. 25, with the Greek government proceeding with a relaxation of measures that affect the retail sector, and in regions where the concentration of the coronavirus is at acceptable levels. In a welcome development for…

The Church today venerates the memory of Athanasios and Cyril, both Patriarchs of Alexandria, in the fourth and fifth centuries, respectively. These two saints were pre-eminent Christian theologians, Church Fathers and resolute defenders of Trinitarianism against Arianism.

On the eve of New Year, according to the Julian Calendar, January 13, 2021, His Grace Bishop Irinej of Eastern America formally received at the Episcopal Residence and Diocesan Center in New Rochelle, New York, His Excellency Marko Djuric, newly arrived Ambassador of the Republic of Serbia to the United States of America. In a…

On Sunday, 17th of January 2021, His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas presided over Matins and served the Divine Liturgy at the Church of Saint Anthony the Great and Saint John the Baptist in Holloway, N. London. thyateira.org.uk