Canberra’s only Greek Orthodox church has received a $1 million makeover after hail ravaged the 50-year-old building in January. As much as 80 percent of the roof of St Nicholas Church in Kingston was damaged in the unprecedented hailstorm. Tiles and stained glass windows smashed during the storm led to flooding throughout the church. “It…

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  The feast day of the Dormition of our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos, and Ever Virgin Mary, was celebrated on Friday throughout the semi-autonomous Orthodox monastic community of Mt. Athos, based on the Julian calendar. A divine liturgy was celebrated on Friday morning at the church of Protatos, in Mount Athos’ administrative seat in…

The memory of St. Joseph the Hesychast was commemorated this year in his birthplace for the first time since his canonization last year by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. St. Joseph the Hesychast was born in the village of Lefkes, on the Cyclades island of Paros, in 1898.         

  This month’s decision by Islamist Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to convert the Chora Church into a mosque is an act of intolerance and symbolic violence, the President of the Hellenic Republic, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, stressed. In a post on Facebook on Friday, Sakellaropoulou spoke of an act that blatantly violated the UNESCO conventions but…

  Some 500,000 voters will head to the ballot boxes on Sunday in the small Adriatic country of Montenegro, in order to elect a new government. The situation in the country remains fluid, given months of tension due to the state’s persecution of the Orthodox Church, its clergy and faithful. In a particularly inflammatory and…

The oldest Greek-language newspaper in Australia, “Vima tis Ekklisias”, which is published by the Archdiocese of Australia, unveiled an online edition this week. The newspaper was founded in 1913 to meet the needs of Greek Orthodox emigrants arriving in the island continent.     VEMA TV SPOT To "Βήμα της Εκκλησίας" στην ψηφιακή εποχή…Πλέον κοντά…

On Thursday morning, August 14/27, 2020, Fore-feast of the Dormition, the Service of the Lamentations was held at the Patriarchate of Jerusalem. This ceremony in honour of Theotokos is a part of the Status Quo of the Church of Jerusalem. For this ceremony, the Hagiotaphite entourage, led by its Hegoumen His Beatitude the Patriarch of…

Friday, August 15th, 2020 – His Grace Bishop Irinej paid a visit to his Episcopal See in New York City, the St. Sava Pro-Cathedral, to review the finalization of the first phase of the impressive reconstruction endeavor. The present Secure & Enclosure undertaking consists of securing the walls, including rebuilding segments of the roof line;…