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Three people were killed in a knife attack at a church in the French city of Nice, earlier on Thursday. Nice Mayor Christian Estrosi said there had been a “terrorist attack at the heart of the Notre-Dame basilica”. One elderly victim who had come to pray was “virtually beheaded”. One suspect was shot and detained…

The municipality of Gennadi on the Dodecanese island of Rhodes today celebrates the feast day of St. Anastasia the Roman, as the chapel in the town’s cemetery is dedicated to the saint. The chapel features a unique, in Greece, series of frescoes detailing St. Anastasia’s life and martyrdom, dated to roughly the year 1800. The…

Incumbent US President Donald Trump and the Democratic Party candidate for the presidency Joe Biden on Wednesday issued messages for the annual Oct. 28 Greek national holiday, known as OXI day, which commemorates Greece’s entry into WWII. In a statement issued by the White House, Trump notes that “…OXI Day commemorates this day in 1940…

The deputy head of the external Church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Arch-priest Nikolay Balashov, this week decried the conversion of the Chora Church in Turkey into a mosque, after photographs emerged online, showing mosaics and frescoes covered with curtains inside the historic Chora Church. In a post on Facebook, the hierarch referred to the…

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday said his government wants to avoid a nationwide “lockdown”, amid a resurgent coronavirus pandemic in the country, with single-day confirmed instances now exceeding 1,000 — at the same time when they only reached into the low single-digit numbers last spring. Another three regions in the country, the greater…

The Church today venerates the memory of Anastasia the Martyr of Rome. St. Anastasia, who was young in age and lived in a convent, was seized by the impious. Confessing Christ openly and with boldness, and enduring numerous torments, she was beheaded in the year 256, during the reign of Valerian.

12th / 25th OCTOBER 2020: On the Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the Seventh Ecumenical Council, on which day were also commemorated St Martin the Merciful and St Edwin the King and Martyr of the British Isles, His Grace Bishop Irenei of London and Western Europe headed the Divine Liturgy at the Church of…

In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. My dear brothers and sisters: we are living now in a moment that demands faith — and not faith in ourselves, or in our civil structures, in governments or in the wisdom of men. We are living in a moment that requires faith…