Adelaide’s Greek Orthodox Archdiocese has issued a memorandum regarding the abortion bill tabled by South Australia’s Parliament. The text reads as follows: Dear Reverend Fathers, brothers and sisters in Christ, As you may be aware, [on 14 October] a new Bill was tabled in SA parliament under the guise of decriminalising abortion. There are supposedly…

After months of hard lockdown measures in Melbourne the easing of the COVID-19 regulations that all but halted religious life in parishes is starting to stir again with churches being allowed to open their doors to 10 people per service and the hope that this will increase to 20 or more on 8 November. Archepiscopal…

The earthly remains of Metropolitan Amfilohije were prayerfully met in the Cathedral of Christ’s Resurrection in Podgorica, capital of Montenegro, as they had been previously sent from the Cetinje Monastery, where the Holy Liturgy had been celebrated for the repose of the soul of the Archbishop of blessed memory on 31 of October 2020. The…

A cross has been ripped down from a Greek Orthodox Church in a part of Syria controlled by U.S.-backed militants. The St. Sergius and Bacchus Greek Orthodox Church in the city of Tabqa near Raqqa had radical Islamists remove the cross after Friday’s Islamic prayers in a local mosque. Although commentators refer to this action…

Police have arrested a suspect after a gunman shot and seriously injured a Greek Orthodox priest in the French city of Lyon, local media have reported. The priest, named by French media as Nikolaos Kakavelakis, was shot at twice and seriously injured in the stomach at about 4pm local time on Saturday as he was…

A priest of a Greek Orthodox Church in the French City of Lyon has been brutally targeted in a terrorist attack. The Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation, located on 45 Rue Père Chevrier, is a part of the Hellenic Community of Lyon founded in 1929. The priest of the church is Nikolaos Kakavelakis, but…

Seismologists remain on alert following the evolution of earthquakes that have occurred since last Saturday night off Halkidiki, in the sea area of Mount Athos. “Most likely, the main earthquake was that of 5.2 on the Richter scale. So far, it is not considered a disturbing situation but due to the history of the area…

Abortion is the plague of our times – responsible for more 40-50 million deaths annually worldwide. This is more than cancer, HIV and other diseases, traffic accidents, smoking and alcohol combined. Many women are pressured into the decision against their will by a feeling of a lack of support, or even by direct coercion from…

A message of condolences from the Archbishop of Australia for the Victims of the Earthquake which has devastated Samos and Izmir. With deep sorrow and pain, we observe from the distant Antipodes, the images of destruction that have come to us from the areas affected by the earthquake which has struck both Greece and Turkey…