Politicians have remained silent over the art teacher whose paintings have caused controversy because they do not want to lose votes, Archbishop Chrysostomos said on Sunday. Speaking after leading the service at a church in Paphos, he also said the education ministry should take the matter more seriously as the man in question has “no…

The first part of the fourth Internet assembly of physicians and healthcare 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 Νews Αgency. The assembly was held on Saturday, Sept. 5. 

The US ambassador in Serbia, Anthony Godfrey, this week visited the historic Mileševa monastery, where he was received and given a guide tour by the Bishop of Mileševa, his Grace Athanasije. The monastery, one of the most significant spiritual centers in Serbia, was founded in the 13th century.      

Media reports in Turkey and Greece this week claimed that the increasingly bellicose Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has taken exception to 15-meter Cross erected a little more than two kilometers from the Greek-Turkish land border in the Evros prefecture, and on a spot outside the Holy Monastery of St, Paraskevi, in the Nea Vyssa…

Greece’s culture minister, Lina Mendoni, continued a tour of several Dodecanese islands in the southeast Aegean, visiting historic cathedrals, monasteries and other monuments. Better promoting Orthodox and the Hellenic heritage of the Aegean islands – which have been at the epicenter of Greek civilization for millennia – has recently come to the forefront, amid unprecedented…

Members of the Holy Community of Mount Athos, the rotating administrative body for the semi-autonomous Orthodox monastic community in northern Greece, met on Tuesday morning -in an extraordinary session – to discuss the confirmed Covid-19 cases that were recorded in a handful of monasteries there. A decision was taken not to seal off the Holy…

The Church today venerates the memory of Phocas the Martyr, Bishop of Sinope, as well as the same-name Phocas the Cyprian.

  His Grace Bishop Nikodim of Dalmatia celebrated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the Dragovic Monastery on September 20, 2020. Within the last week before the Dormition of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the faithful traditionally gathered with their Bishop to celebrate together the church dedication feast. “Today we have gathered to celebrate the feast of…

On September 21, 2020, on the feast of the Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God, His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Irinej presided over the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the Church of the Mother of God in Zemun, which celebrated its Patron Saint-day and the 240th anniversary of the consecration. Archimandrite Methodius, abbot of the…