A short film about the life of St Sophrony the Athonite Made for the Sunday School of the Greek Orthodox Church of Manchester St Sophrony was born in 1896 in Moscow. He had a big family with many siblings. He loved painting from a very young age. He started painting before he could say…

Work is underway to convert Hagia Sophia from a museum to a mosque. Videos broadcasted by Turkish Media show municipal officials taking down all signs of the Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism that identified Hagia Sophia as a museum. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan signed the decree last Friday, allowing the operation of Hagia…

The North Aegean Regional Governor, Costas Moutzouris, made a request to the Minister of Development, Adonis Georgiadis, and the Minister of Finance, Christos Staikouras, to suspend the financing to restore the Valide mosque in Mytilene, as reported by Greek City Times. “The North Aegean Regional Governor and the Regional Authority consider that in the current…

  Archbishop Sotirios of Canada With the advent of the coronavirus, our churches were closed to the public on March 17, 2020, by order of the government authorities in Canada (we are generally referring to government authorities in Canada, because matters in regard to health do not fall under the jurisdiction of the federal government,…

The Turkish government’s decision to turn Hagia Sophia, a World Heritage Site, into a mosque is unacceptable and confrontational. This action is not only a direct insult to the character of the UNESCO World Heritage Site, it is a link in the overall challenging and aggressive policy of the Turkish government. The Greek Orthodox Community…

The Church today venerates the memory of the Holy Martyrs Cyricus, a child, and His Mother Julitta. Today is also the feast day of Vladimir, Equal-to-the-Apostles of Kiev, the first Christian czar.

The first part of the second online assembly from Mount Athos with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, and members of large families, which took place late last month, has been posted on the pages of the electronic magazine Pemptousia.

An ambitious 400-million-ruble plan to restore more than 10 cathedrals in the greater Moscow area continues. The overall plan, begun in 2012, calls for a restoration and preservation of 62 religious monuments , with a budget of two billion rubles. The program is showcased in a recent Russian-language edition entitled “Orthodox Moscow in the 21st…

The Trump administration this week announced that Greek-American Michael Kratsios, a South Carolina native, will serve as the acting US Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. Kratsios, whose family roots are from the eastern Aegean island of Chios and the northern city of Kastoria, has often referred to his Orthodox faith, as well…