Primary and secondary schools opened throughout Greece on Monday, with the customary blessing ceremony to inaugurate the new academic year. Pupils and educators are required to wear masks while in classes, while school premises will be repeatedly disinfected. Each pupil was handed two masks and a a new canteen for drinking water or beverages, as…

  The Church today commemorates the Elevation of the Venerable and Life-Giving Cross. It was St. Helen, the mother of St. Constantine the Great, who undertook, even while in advanced age, the hardships of a journey to Jerusalem to search for the cross, in roughly the year 325. The venerable Helen had a pagan temple…

  His Grace Andrej, Bishop of Austria-Switzerland, presided over the Vigil Service on the eve of the feast of the Holy New Martyrs of Jasenovac in the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Pakrac on September 12, 2020. In the prayerful presence of the faithful of the Pakrac parish, clergy and monks, as well as…

On Sunday, August 31/13 September 2020, when the Orthodox Church celebrates the Synaxis of Serbian Saints and the Memorial of the Martyrs of Jasenovac, in the Monastery of the Birth of St. John the Baptist, in Jasenovac, in the Diocese of Slavonia, the Serbian church dedicated to the Holy New Martyrs of Jasenovac was consecrated….

On Sunday, September 13, 2020, His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas presided over Matins, the Service of the Consecration of a Church and the Divine Liturgy at the Church of St. Cosmas and St. Damian in Ipswich. At the end of the Divine Liturgy His Eminence gave the office of Spiritual Father to the Priest-in-charge of the…

On September 11, the Metropolis of Kaisariani, Vyronas, and Hymettus of the Greek Orthodox Church made an official statement on its website about a myrrh-streaming icon of the Most Holy Theotokos in a church in an Athens suburb. The statement regarding the Consolation Icon of the Mother of God in the Church of St. Demetrius…

On Friday, September 11, 2020, at 14:00, at Tbilisi Theological Academy and Seminary a regular meeting of the Scientific Council was held. The Chairman of the Scientific Council and Rector of Tbilisi Theological Academy and Seminary, Protopresbyter Giorgi Zviadadze congratulated the members of the Scientific Council on the beginning of the new academic year and…

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On September 11, 2020, the feast day of the Beheading of the Holy and Glorious Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist John, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia officiated the Divine Liturgy at St. Alexander Nevsky Church in Moscow, reports the official website of the Russian Orthodox Church. On this day, the Russian Orthodox Church prays…