A special anniversary was marked in the Russian Orthodox Church over the weekend, with the celebration of 50 years since the founding of the Patriarchal Parishes in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The celebration on September 5 and 6 was timed to coincide with the anniversary of the repose of Metropolitan Nikodim (Rostov),…

St. Joseph the Hesychast, one of the greatest saints of the 20th century, was canonized by the Patriarchate of Constantinople in March. The Patriarchate established the feast of St. Joseph as August 16/29 so as not to coincide with the feast of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos on which he reposed in 1959….

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  In a related development, the Turkish government has issued yet another notification towards mariners, extending to Sept. 25, warning of seismic research in a stretch of the eastern Mediterranean that lies in Greece’s continental shelf, with the research vessel accompanied by Turkish warships – something that maintains Ankara’s war-mongering and belligerence in the wider…

On his part, the Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, in a message posted on Twitter, noted that “…It was 65 years ago, at night, when the pogrom against the Greek community of Istanbul started…We remember those whose many lives were lost, and their way of life was destroyed by a pre-planned act of terror…

  In referring to the 1955 pogrom, the Ecumenical Patriarch, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Sunday bemoaned the recent conversion of the Hagia Sophia and the Monastery of Chora into mosques, as well as the continuing prohibition against the operation of the Halki School, during an address at the seminary’s ceremony hall, and on…

  The tragic 65-year anniversary of a pogrom against the Greek Orthodox communities of Constantinople, modern-day Istanbul, was grimly observed this week. Mobs descended on the city on the evening of Sept. 6 towards Sept. 7, many being ferried from rural parts outside the Bosporus metropolis, under a detailed plan by the then Menderes government…

Moreover, the latest in a continuing string of provocations and insults by the Erdogan administration against Christianity, and especially against the hard-pressed Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, is a decision to establish an Islamic studies center on the small Marmara Sea island of Halki. Halki hosts the venerable same-day school of theology, the foremost seminary by…

  The Church today venerates the memory of Kassiani the Hymnographer, as well as celebrating the Fore-feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos, the Ever-Virgin Mary.