Two young teens from Phoenix, Arizona, who were vacationing exploring the cliffs off coastal San Diego, California, earlier this month, are credited with saving two people from drowning. Sixteen-year old Zachary Haugen and 15-year old Jake Watson, both of whom are congregants of the Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Phoenix, looked into the water…

  The Church today venerates the memory of Panteleimon the Great Martyr and Healer. This Saint, who had Nicomedia in northwest Asia Minor as his homeland, was the son of a pagan, but his mother was a Christian from her ancestors. Panteleimon, whose name means means “all-merciful” in Greek, was arrested for practising medicine practiced…

  On the occasion of church Patron Saint-day, His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch celebrated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the church of Holy Archangel Gabriel in Belgrade on 26 July 2020. The Patriarch was concelebrated by diocesan dean of Belgrade One protopresbyter-staurophore Dr Vladimir Vukasinovic, dean of the Faculty of Orthodox Theology of the University…

His Grace Bishop Iinej of Backa presided at the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy on the feast of the Synaxis of the Holy Archangel Gabriel, in the St. George’s Church in Novi Sad on 13/26. July 2020. -God does not deny the freedom he has given us and never imposes Himself on anyone. That is why faith…

Moscow, July 27, Interfax – Sponsors and parishioners donate about three billion rubles ($43 million) every year for the construction of Orthodox churches in Moscow, the State Duma deputy, curator of new churches’ building in the capital Vladimir Resin said. “The major benefactor and donator are people, Muscovites, residents of the capital’s districts. They feel…

On Sunday, July 13/26, 2020, Sunday of the Holy Fathers and of the Synaxis of Archangel Gabriel, as well as of the commemoration of St. Stephen of St. Savvas Lavra, His Beatitude our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Holy Monastery of St. John the Baptist at the West…

The Central Youth Committee (CYC) of New South Wales has released the second episode of Truth Seekers where His Grace Bishop Emilinos of Meloa explores the question, ‘What do we say to those claiming that Christianity is a way of controlling people? Is it?’ What’s covered in this discussion: Christ sets the ultimate example of…

TORONTO – The Board of Directors of the Panmessenian Federation of the USA and Canada released a statement on July 21 concerning the conversion of Aghia Sophia into a mosque. The complete statement follows: “The governing body of the Panmessenian Federation of USA and Canada, respecting religions and ideologies around the world, condemns the recent…

One of Alaska’s most iconic Orthodox churches, the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Kenai, is undergoing a two-month restoration in honor of its 125th anniversary. When the work is done, the church, Alaska’s oldest standing Orthodox church, built in 1895-1896, will be decked out with a new roof, a new dome,…