Following a cabinet meeting in Ankara on Monday, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spoke about the issue of Hagia Sophia for half an hour, Iefimerida reported. According to Istanbul correspondent for OPEN TV, Maria Zacharaki, Erdoğan presented the conversion of Hagia Sophia as his great achievement. In particular, he stressed that “the opening of Hagia Sophia…

My beloved in the Lord, “For even the Son of Man did not come to be served. But to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many.” (Mark 10:45) Greetings in the Name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! As we continue through the remainder of what has been a unique…

The Serbian alumni of St. Vladimir’s Seminary, who had the privilege of studying under renowned theologian, the Very Rev. Professor Dr. John Behr, together with his Grace Bishop Irinej, himself an alumnus of St. Vladimir’s Seminary, now bid farewell and voice their appreciation, as Fr. John and his family moved to Scotland. By appointment of…

His Holiness Patriarch-Catholicos Ilia II of Georgia became the Godfather to another 721 children on Sunday, July 26, reports Interpress News. Since January 2008, His Holiness Catholics-Patriarch Ilia II has been holding several mass Baptism ceremonies a year, in which he personally becomes Godfather to the third and later children of married Orthodox couples. The…

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  The Islamist Erdogan administration is readying yet another high-profile PR event centering around a Greek Orthodox landmark and renowned Byzantine monument, just days after the first Muslim prayer was held at the iconic Hagia Sophia in nearly nine decades – a shocking event that sealed the 6th century Orthodox basilica’s conversion back into a…

  The Metropolitan of Spain and Portugal, His Eminence Polykarpos, on Sunday concelebrated the Divine Liturgy on the occasion of feast day of St. Paraskevi, the Righteous Martyr of Rome, during a service in the southern Greece coastal city of Nafpaktos, his home town. The Metropolitan Nafpaktos, His Eminence Ierotheos, co-officiated. In a sermon, Metropolitan…

  Ferry boats and other vessels sailing just off the eastern Aegean island of Chios sounded their horns in celebration on Sunday afternoon, on the occasion of the feast day of St. Paraskeve. The vessels passed by the seaside church dedicated to the saint, continuing a tradition of past years. The church was built in…

  Greece apparently has the largest share of residents in Europe who link belief in God to morality. In particular, residents in Greece rank first, in the Western World, in the conviction that a belief in God is synonymous with morality, and even higher than in the United States in terms of importance of religion…