The Telos Parish Outreach Program (Telos POP) invites young adults to begin a 40 day project in their parish where they will receive a grant from the Telos Project to carry out their idea, all while receiving guidance and support from the Telos young adult community along the way. Rolling sign-ups are accepted now and…
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Moscow, November 2, Interfax – The Russian Orthodox Church has criticized the plans of State Duma deputies to adopt amendments to a law that would allow the removal of children from families within 24 hours if there is a threat to their life and health under a court ruling. “I believe the authors of this…
After more than four months, churches in the Melbourne area and throughout the State of Victoria, in Australia, opened their doors to the faithful over the weekend, initially with a limit of 10 worshippers — set after a relevant lockdown ended. For instance, the Feast of St. David of Evia was celebrated on Sunday…
Monday marks the 29-year anniversary of the enthronement of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, at the patriarchal cathedral of St. George in 1991 — as the 270th Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome, and Ecumenical Patriarch. Bartholomew was born on the northeast Aegean island of Imbros in February 1940, the…
An online address by the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, entitled “Lessons from Athos”, has been posted on the pages of the Orthodoxia news agency. The address was part of events for the 2020 Demetria events at the Cathedral of St. Demetrious in Piraeus last month….
The funeral for the reposed Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral, Amphilochios, took place on Sunday at the Cathedral of Christ’s Resurrection in the Adriatic country’s capital of Podgorica. Thousands of people lined the streets of the Montenegro capital to pay their last respects to the reposed Metropolitan, who was one of the most…
French authorities continued a manhunt on Monday for a suspect that critically wounded a Greek Orthodox priest in Lyon, France over the weekend. In an announcement, the Orthodox Metropolis of France expressed great sorrow over the attack on Fr. Nikolaos Kakavelakis, who was wounded by a suspect firing a sawed-off shotgun outside the Church…
A significant protocol of cooperation was signed today at the Archdiocese of Athens between the Church of Greece and the Greek state to prevent domestic violence, a problem that has reportedly increased during the pandemic. The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, accompanied by the Metropolitan of Ilion, Archarnon and Petroupoli,…