His Eminence the Archbishop of America Elpidophoros on Wednesday received Metropolitan Evangelos of Sardes, and congratulated him on his election to the historic Metropolis of the All-Venerable Ecumenical Throne. During a fraternal and cordial meeting, the two hierarchs discussed the practical issues of transmission and reception of the Holy Metropolis of New Jersey, while the…

A video of the an address by the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, was posted today on the pages of the online magazine Pemptousia, on the occasion of the feast day of the Nativity of the Theotokos, the Virgin Mary.

A celebratory archieratical Divine Liturgy was held on Wednesday and Thursday morning at the St. Skepi Cathedral in the northern city of Edessa, on the occasion of the translation of the holy relics of St. Kallinikos, a recently canonized saint of the Orthodox Church. The Vespers service was officiated by the Metropolitan of Nafpaktos and…

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov this week also commented on the Hagia Sophia provocation, saying that while Moscow recognizes Turkish authorities’ right to determine uses for the basilica, its status as a world heritage monument must also be taken account.

The mayor of the central Greece city of Larissa, Apostolos Kalogiannis, spoke to the Orthodoxia news agency this week over an initiative by his municipality towards UNESCO, regarding the shocking decision by the Turkish president last July to convert the Hagia Sophia into a mosque. The initiative comes ahead of a conference of UNESCO’s Global…

Turkish provocations continued unabated this week throughout the east Mediterranean and Near East, with the autocratic and now unabashedly Islamist Erdogan regime engaging in illegal hydrocarbon exploration in waters that Ankara unilaterally claims as its own, along direct Turkish involvement and meddling in military conflicts in the Caucasus, throughout the Levant and Libya, and lastly,…

The Church today venerates the memory of St. Euthymius the New of Thessalonica and Mt Athos.

On Sunday, October 11, the Circle of Serbian Sisters at the parish of St. John the Baptist in Dapt, celebrated its glory – the Protection of the Most Holy Mother of God. The Holy Hierarch’s Liturgy was served by His Eminence Bishop Mr. Siluan, with the assistance of archpriests-staurophores Ilija Dragosavljević and Ljupko Čubrilović and…

The first Islamic prayer at the Monastery of Chora in Constantinople (Κωνσταντινούπολη, Turkish: İstanbul) will be performed by the Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on October 30, giving the “anointing” of Islamism to another monument of Christianity. The doors of the Monastery of Chora, which have been closed for two months due to its conversion…