Next year will mark 200 years since Greece began the struggle for independence and Victoria’s Organizing Committee of the National Anniversary is calling on the entire Greek community to take part in organising events to mark the great anniversary. The organising committee which consists of all major Greek organisations in Victoria has begun preparations…

The 79th Anniversary of the Battle of Crete was kept small in Melbourne due to the COVID-19 restrictions. A wreath-laying ceremony took place at the Shrine of Remembrance. Wreaths were laid by Greek consul general Dimitris Michalopoulos, President of the Cretan Federation of Australia and New Zealand A. Tsourdalakis and representatives of Cretan bodies. Events…

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The Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, welcomed back often tearful worshipers to cathedrals this week for attendance at holy services and the Divine Liturgy, although the latter are still conducted in outdoor areas just outside places of worship. The development comes after Romanian authorities eased coronavirus-related restrictions.

The Metropolitan of Cameroon, His Eminence Grigorios, spoke to the Orthodoxia news agency this week on matters of faith, the Holy Communion and the difficulties of maintaining a mission in sub-Saharan Africa. Still in the region, the Metropolitan of Nairobi, His Eminence Makarios, remains close to his flock amid the difficult times entailed in the…

The state-sponsored persecution of the Orthodox Church in Montenegro generated a statement from the US State Department this week, with Washington, however, attempting to keep equal distances in the furor that has erupted since the beginning of the year. The US called on both the government and Church to commence a dialogue and to exhibit…

The Elder Archimandrite Ephraim’s address and answers to viewers’ questions, part of the third online Archontariki from Mount Athos, which took place last Saturday, have been posted today on the pages of the Orthodoxia news agency. Among others, the Elder Ephraim, who is the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, refers to…

Central Macedonia regional governor Apostolos Tzitzikostas headed a meeting on Monday convened to gauge progress in restoring weather-related damages on the semi-autonomous monastic community of Mount Athos. The damages were the result of particularly heavy thunderstorms on the northern Greece peninsula last month. Tzitzikostas noted that “…we have a debt to protect Mount Athos”. In…

Today, May 19, is Pontian Genocide Remembrance Day in Greece. The day marks the landing of Kemal Αtaturk in the Black Sea port city of Samsun in 1919, for the commencement of what is known in Turkey as the war of independence. For Greek Pontians, however, this event marked the beginning of the second phase of…