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  The memory of St. Kosmas the Aetolian was again commemorated this year at the historic monastery dedicated to the saint, near the village of Kolikontasi in central Albania. Scores of Orthodox pilgrims from around Albania again traveled to the St. Kosmas Monastery to honor to the saint, who was martyred at the hands of…

  In Jerusalem, a litany of the holy icon of the Dormition of the Theotokos, the Ever-Virgin Mary, was held at dawn on Tuesday at the Tomb of the Panaghia in Gethsemane.

  Turkish provocations in the wider region continued for yet another day this week, with the latest outrageous claim uttered by the head of the Turkish Cypriot religious endowment foundation Evkaf, which operates in the Turkish-occupied part of the island republic of Cyprus. The man question, named Ibrahim Bender, claimed that all of the ghost…

  Members of the permanent Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece convened on Tuesday and will again meet tomorrow, Wednesday, in what will be the last session of the 163rd synodical period for the specific ecclesiastical body. The new ecclesiastical year begins on Sept. 1. The session was chaired by the Archbishop…

    The Holy Archdiocese of Australia announces the establishment of a National Committee for the 200th anniversary of the Greek Revolution (1821-2021). The National Committee consists of:   His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, President of the National Committee.   His Grace Bishop Ezekiel of Dervis, Archiepiscopal Vicar of Melbourne.   His Grace Bishop…

The Agia Sophia Cathedral in Warsaw, which has been under construction since 2015, will be consecrated on September 20, on the eve of the feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos. As His Beatitude Metropolitan Sawa of Warsaw and All Poland notes in a new statement to the episcopate, clergy, and faithful of the Polish…

His Holiness Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II of Georgia has offered his condolences to the families who lost loved ones in the tragic road accident in Khevsureti on Sunday. 17 people were tragically killed when a tourist company’s minibus fell down a 260-ft. rocky slope on the road between Shatili and Tbilisi. “Great is our sorrow over…

The Orthodox faithful in Montenegro again took to the streets throughout the country on Sunday, holding mass protests against the persecution of the Serbian Orthodox Church just days before parliamentary elections scheduled for August 30. Such events began to be held in December after the government adopted the scandalous “Law on Religious Freedom” that allows…