His Eminence Metropolitan Alexios of Atlanta has issued the following message regarding this year’s Winter Youth Rally and Hellenic Dance Festival. The message reads:   To the Clergy of the Metropolis of Atlanta: My Brothers in the Lord, I greet you with love and joy in the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ!…

St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and the iconography it housed were destroyed in the attack on the World Trade Center. After almost two decades, the church is rising again with new iconography from a monastery on Mt. Athos. Construction resumed last month on the only house of worship destroyed on 9/11. As we reported last…

A hospital on the Turkish island of Halki has been handed over to the Diyanet, the State Directorate of Religious Affairs, to be converted into an Islamic educational center. At the same time, the Orthodox theological school on the island has been closed by order of the state since 1971. The Turkish government initially announced…

With the blessings and prayers of His Beatitude Patriarch John X, the first Divine Liturgy was celebrated in Our Lady of Antioch Church in Södertälje – Sweden The Patriarchal Vicar, Archimandrite Jean Mansour, celebrated the Divine Liturgy with the participation of Father Joseph and Deacon Basilios. In the sermon, the Patriarchal Vicar thanked God for…

PARIS – The Holy Metropolis of France announced with deep regret that its beloved brother Father Nicholas Xenos, Protopresbyter of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and Vicar General of the Metropolis of France, has fallen asleep in the Lord. The late Father Nicholas Xenos was born in Zakynthos where he completed his early studies. In 1973, he…

The final stage of the Leaders of Russia competition was held on Tuesday, September 8, in the Moscow region. Among the winners was Matushka Maria Lvova-Belova, the mother of 17 children, head of several social and Church projects, and head of the Penza Diocese’s Department for Assistance to People with Disabilities. Leaders of Russia is…

New York, NY – His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew sent virtual greetings to the 45th Clergy-Laity Congress, as it commenced its work for the first time in a virtual setting. His All-Holiness greeted the over 1,100 Delegates, in part, with the following exhortation (Video Link: https://youtu.be/SyOECc-1lLI). “With the assent of God, the Giver of all…

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In a message to all students, parents and teachers in pre-university education, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel conveyed his patriarchal blessings on the beginning of the new school year 2020-2021. The patriarch reminded of the decision of the Holy Synod to declare 2020 as solemn year of the pastoral care of parents and children in the…