The new online radio station Pemptousia.fm debuted today, Monday, featuring programs and content focused on Orthodoxy Christianity, the Church, pastoral care and spiritual guidance. You can listen live to the programs via the Pemptousia webpage or on the Youtube platform. Additionally, you download a specific application for your mobile phone or tablet.

  The first part of the seventh online Archontariki from Mount Athos with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, was posted today on the pages of the Orthodoxia news agency. The online assembly was held on Oct. 1. Archontariki, in Greek, refers to a monastery’s guesthouse.

  The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Sunday officiated at the Divine Liturgy at the St. John of Rilas cathedral in the Sisli district, used serves the expatriate Bulgarian community in the Bosporus metropolis. The Divine Liturgy was celebrated on the eve of the Feast Day of St. John of…

  The Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Most Divine Beatitude Theodoros II, officiated at the Divine Liturgy of St. Mark, which was celebrated on Sunday at the monastery of St. George, within the so-called Babylon fortress of Cairo’s old quarter. The service was not held in the monastery’s catholicos, or main cathedral, but…

The Grand Mufti of the Caucasus, Allahshükür Pashazade, who holds a title that covers his native Azerbaijan, along with Georgia, and several Caucasus republics of the Russian Federation, offered Muslim prayers at the Hagia Sophia this week, the latest provocation against the greatest of all basilicas of eastern Christendom – three months after Islamist Turkish…

  The trial of Metropolitan of Corfu, Paxi and the Diapontian isles, His Eminence Nektarios, on two misdemeanor charges of allegedly violating public health restrictions, ones issued at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, commenced on Monday morning at a first instance court on Corfu. A local prosecutor took exception to the Metropolitan’s sermon on…

  The Church today venerates the memory of Joel the Prophet. Joel is believed to have lived in either the 8th or 7th century BC. He foretold the coming of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost and the saving power of the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

On Sunday, October 5/18, 2020, His Beatitude our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos officiated the Divine Liturgy at the Holy Monastery of Saint Onuphrius, which is located opposite Siloam’s pool, where the man who was born blind was sent by the Lord to wash his eyes and recover his vision. It is built on…

Orthodox clerics and faithful from America shall unite again to participate in the Washington, DC 2021 March for Life, as they did in previous years. The pro-life organization Orthodox Christians for Life and Orthodox Christian Network, the agency of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the United States of America (ACOB-US), have already created…