The President of Cyprus, Nikos Anastasiades, on Tuesday called on UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, to personally intervene amid Ankara’s threats to open and exploit a portion of the Cypriot ghost town of Famagusta for business and tourism, something that’s in direct violation of UN Security Council resolutions. Famagusta was abandoned by the Greek…

  The two-day sessions of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece’s Permanent Holy Synod concluded on Wednesday, the last such session of the 163rd synodical period, as the new ecclesiastical year begins on Sept. 1. According to a released agenda, the Holy Synod’s hierarchs focused on issues dealing with administrative issues, such as transfers of…

On 24 August 2020, His Beatitude Theophilos, Patriarch of Jerusalem, met with head of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem Archimandrite Alexander (Yelisov) and introduced to him Mother Superior of the Gorny Convent Yekaterina (Chernysheva), patriarchia.ru reports with reference to the website of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem. They were joined in their talk…

Metropolis of Chicago unveils new program to revitalize church stewardship and foster greater financial sustainability at the parish level LOMBARD, IL, August, 25, 2020 – The Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Chicago announced today the implementation of a Metropolis-wide program to help parishes transition to greater stewardship participation as the means of meeting operating expenses and…

As hundreds of wildfires spread across California, consuming hundreds of thousands of acres, monastic and parish communities are in danger, and unfortunately, some Orthodox Christians have already lost everything to the fires. The brothers of St. Herman of Alaska Monastery in Platina in northern California and the sisters of the associated St. Xenia of St….

On August 26, the Greek Orthodox Church celebrates the Feast Day of The Holy Martyrs Adrian and Natalia. Martyrs Adrian and Natalia were married in their youth for one year prior to their martyrdom, and lived in Nicomedia during the time of the emperor Maximian (305-311 AD). The emperor promised a reward to whoever would…

August 25, 2020 Prot. No.529 + B A R T H O L O M E W BY GOD’S MERCY ARCHBISHOP OF CONSTANTINOPLE-NEW ROME AND ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH TO ALL THE PLENITUDE OF THE CHURCH GRACE, PEACE AND MERCY FROM THE MAKER OF ALL CREATION OUR LORD, GOD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST Dearest brother Hierarchs and…

The faithful of the Parish of the Dormition of the Theotokos in Jeonju, with the participation of the Metropolitan of Korea Fr. Ambrosios, assisted by Presbyter Fr. Hillarion Jeong, and Deacon Yohan Park celebrated the feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos, according to the ecclesiastical order. On the day before the feast, many believers…

    September 1, 2020 New Ecclesiastical Year The Very Reverend and Reverend Clergy Esteemed Members of the Metropolitan Council, Esteemed Members of the Parish Councils, Philoptochos Sisterhood, Faculty and Students of the Catechetical and Greek Afternoon Schools, Directors and Participants of all Youth Organizations, and all devout Orthodox Christians of the Communities of the…