Wednesday, 14 October 2020, Metropolitan Vladimir of Chisinau and all Moldova celebrated the Divine Liturgy on the Feast of the Protection of the Mother of God at the Nativity of the Lord Cathedral in the capital of the country. Present at the celebration of the Patron Feast of Chisinau, among others, were President Igor Dodon,…

A reliquary containing the holy relics of St. Paraskeva of the Balkans was conveyed from the Metropolitan Cathedral in the Romanian city of Iasi, to a dome in the Casei Epivata district for veneration by the faithful. A procession, led by the Archbishop of Suceava and Rădăutsi., His Eminence Calinic, of the reliquary was held…

Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Costas Vlassis on Tuesday received the new Exarch of the Holy Sepulcher in Athens, His Most Reverend Archimandrite Rafael Grivas. The Holy and Sacred Synod of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem announced the appointment last month of its new Exarch in Athens. Vlassis congratulated the Archimandrite over his appointment to the post,…

Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou on Tuesday attended a ceremony rededicating the fully restored ancestral home of Macedonian Struggle hero Pavlos Melas. The residence is located in the north Athens district of Kifissia. In a brief address, the Greek president referred to a noble ideologue, a visionary of freedom and of timeless Hellenic Macedonia.

Following a prolonged COVID-19 shutdown, many parishes of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America are reporting a decrease in weekly giving and long-term stewardship donations. The negative development comes in tandem with lower attendance by the faithful at holy services and ministries. In response to the situation and the great strain placed on parishes, the…

The rapid spread of COVID-19, resulting in millions of infections and deaths around the world, as well as economic devastation prompted OCMC to act. Thanks to an outpouring of support from our donors, we were able to assist our brothers and sisters in the mission field who were among those hit the hardest. Funds have…

“Nobody should forget that he belongs to God, with the body and with the soul; that all moments of life and all needs of the soul and of the body depend on Him. That is why, man should turn to God whenever his soul or body is in need” (St. John of Kronstadt). With the…

The Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, His Beatitude John X, on Tuesday toured the under-reconstruction church of St. George in the Syrian city of Arbin, which lies just north of Damascus. The cathedral, the only Greek Orthodox place of worship in the municipality, was destroyed by Islamist rebels and terrorists during the Syrian…

The Russian Church’s Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Eminence Hilarion, this week received Greece’s ambassador to Russia, Ekaterini Nasika, a year after the latter presented her credentials to the country’s head of state. Hilarion, the head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external Church relations, and Greece’s top diplomat in Russia, focused on the situation created…