On Oct. 13, 2020, His Grace Bishop Silvester met for the second time with the clergy of the Eastern region of the diocese to tackle spiritual and Liturgical matters. During the meeting, the priests in joy together with His Grace, welcomed His Eminence Metropolitan Ieronymos of Mwanza who had passed over at Holy Resurrection Cathedral…

On Oct. 14, 2020, in a bright atmosphere, the Monastery of St.Paraskevi in Busaana celebrated its feast with the presence and blessing of three Hierarchs, Metropolitan Innocent of Burundi and Rwanda who officiated the Holy Liturgy together with Bishop Silvester of Gulu and Eastern Uganda, and the Metropolitan of Kampala Jonah who humbly prayed with…

A new online radio station Pemptousia.fm will debut on Oct. 19, featuring programs and content focused on Orthodoxy Christianity, the Church, pastoral care and spiritual guidance. 

His Eminence the Archbishop of America Elpidophoros on Wednesday received Metropolitan Evangelos of Sardes, and congratulated him on his election to the historic Metropolis of the All-Venerable Ecumenical Throne. During a fraternal and cordial meeting, the two hierarchs discussed the practical issues of transmission and reception of the Holy Metropolis of New Jersey, while the…

A video of the an address by the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, was posted today on the pages of the online magazine Pemptousia, on the occasion of the feast day of the Nativity of the Theotokos, the Virgin Mary.

A celebratory archieratical Divine Liturgy was held on Wednesday and Thursday morning at the St. Skepi Cathedral in the northern city of Edessa, on the occasion of the translation of the holy relics of St. Kallinikos, a recently canonized saint of the Orthodox Church. The Vespers service was officiated by the Metropolitan of Nafpaktos and…

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov this week also commented on the Hagia Sophia provocation, saying that while Moscow recognizes Turkish authorities’ right to determine uses for the basilica, its status as a world heritage monument must also be taken account.

The mayor of the central Greece city of Larissa, Apostolos Kalogiannis, spoke to the Orthodoxia news agency this week over an initiative by his municipality towards UNESCO, regarding the shocking decision by the Turkish president last July to convert the Hagia Sophia into a mosque. The initiative comes ahead of a conference of UNESCO’s Global…

Turkish provocations continued unabated this week throughout the east Mediterranean and Near East, with the autocratic and now unabashedly Islamist Erdogan regime engaging in illegal hydrocarbon exploration in waters that Ankara unilaterally claims as its own, along direct Turkish involvement and meddling in military conflicts in the Caucasus, throughout the Levant and Libya, and lastly,…