* By Claus Grue and Xanthi Morfi Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece offers reflections from an Orthodox perspective on the current plight of refugees, both in Greece and beyond, and how churches can help with both relief efforts and long-term wellbeing. What is your assessment of the current refugee crisis from a Christian…

The second part of the fourth Internet assembly of physicians and health care professionals with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, has been posted today on the pages of the Orthodoxia News Agency. The assembly was held on Saturday, Sept. 5. 

The historic St. Thecla chapel, located on the medieval walls that once protected Nicosia, the capital of the east Mediterranean island of Cyprus, will celebrate the saint’s feast day on Thursday. A great Divine Liturgy will take place in the afternoon.

The memory of the Panaghia Pantanassa, will again commemorated with venerable Mount Athos liturgical order at the St. Nicholas church in Porto Lagos, a glebe of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi in northeastern Greece. The holy services will be broadcast live by the Orthodoxia News Agency and the online magazine Pemptousia. An Orthros…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, this week received a letter by the president of the newly christened Republic of North Macedonia, Stevo Pendarovski, who appealed to the Patriarchate to recognize the autocephaly of the Orthodox Church in his small south Balkan country. According to media reports, Pendarovski’s letter to the…

Members of the Episcopal council of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro this week expressed their admiration and gratitude towards the citizens in the small Adriatic country for defending, as they said, the Church and its saints over the past few months. Results of a general election in late August ended the two-decades-long reign of…

The Metropolitan of Thessaliotidos and Farsala, His Eminence Timotheos, spoke to the Orthodoxia News Agency on Wednesday regarding the situation in his district after last weekend’s severe rainfall caused widespread flooding in central Greece. 

The Church today commemorates the Conception of St. John the Baptist. His birth came to pass 15 months before the birth of Christ, after a vision of the Angel that Zacharias, the father of the Forerunner, saw in the temple.

His Grace Bishop Fotije of Zvornik-Tuzla served the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in Doboj on the occasion of the celebration of the Cathedral Memorial Church of the Birth of the Most Holy Mother of God, on September 21, 2020. Diocesan dean of Doboj, archpriest staurophore Mirko Nikolic; abbot of the Ozren Monastery, archimandrite Gavrilo (Stevanović); archpriests…