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On Thursday, December 4/17, 2020, the Patriarchate celebrated the feasts of the Holy Great Martyr Barbara and of Saint John Damascene. On the commemoration of the Holy Great Martyr Barbara, the Church recalls that the Saint lived in Nicomedia during the reign of Maximian, where she was tortured and beheaded by her own father Dioscorus…

  The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Canada has made a gift in support of the Thomas C. Zachos Chair in Mitochondrial Research. The $1,000.00 contribution will go towards the first named chair to support mitochondrial research at the University of Toronto’s Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology. His Eminence Archbishop Sotirios was inspired to make this…

The Athens-based St Maximos the Greek Institute and the Internet media platform Pemptousia now offer Internet users the ability to hear spiritual sermons in the forms of podcasts.

The Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, was treated to traditional Christmas carols sung by young people of various Greek-Australian institutions. The Archbishop later received members of several Orthodox Christian youth groups at the Archdiocese in Sydney.

Today, December 18, has been designated as International Migrants Day by the United Nations. It’s worth reminding that roughly one-half of Greeks worldwide reside outside Greece proper, while tens of thousands of people, mostly younger and skilled professionals, emigrated from the Greece over the past decade, amid the punishing economic and debt crisis that battered…

More than 3,000 parcels with individual protective gear were dispatched to clerics of the Russian Orthodox Church who are active in ministering and assisting patients infected with Covid-19. According to the Moscow Patriarchate’s Synodical Department for Charity and Social Services, another 10,000 pairs of surgical gloves and face masks have also be sent to clerics…

The Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, on Thursday, speaking during a brief ceremony at the Patriarchal mansion on the occasion of the Feast day of Daniel the Prophet, his namesake, called for humility and prayer by the faithful, so that God can help one better understand the life’s Divine Gifts. Several hierarchs of…

  The Union of Occupied Municipalities on the island republic of Cyprus has sharply reacted to reports by which a Turkish-Cypriot religious property foundation, known as Evkaf, is claiming authority to manage churches in the Turkish-occupied north. The Union underlined that actions, such as the use of the Archangel Michael cathedral in Lefkonoiko for a…