New York, NY – On Wednesday, September 9th at noon, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros will convene the largest Clergy-Laity Congress in the 98-year history of the Holy Archdiocese of America. Over 1,100 delegates from coast to coast have registered for the event, an unprecedented number. Although other in-person Congresses have been attended by more…

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On Tuesday, 15th of September, the feast day of the Great- Martyr Nikitas. His Eminence will preside at Matins and celebrate the Divine Liturgy at the Catehedral of the Divine Wisdom, at 9:00am. thyateira.org.uk

  The first part of the 3rd online assembly from Mount Athos, with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, with children and young people, was posted today on the pages of the Orthodoxia news agency. The assembly took place last Aug. 22. 

  The clergy and faithful of the Russian Orthodox Patriarchal parishes in the United States, Canada and Mexico over the weekend marked the 50th anniversary of the establishment of a special union of parishes of the Moscow Patriarchate in North America. The commemoration was timed to coincide with the anniversary of the repose of the…

  Greece’s relevant culture minister, Lina Mendoni, this week toured several archaeological sites and monuments on the large island of Evia, which lies directly off Greece’s eastern mainland. Mendoni first toured the late medieval cathedral of St. Paraskevi in the island capital of Halkida, accompanied by the Metropolitan of Halkida, His Eminence Chrysostomos. The cathedral…

  Turkey’s armed forces on Sunday began annual exercises on the territory of Cyprus illegally occupied by Turkey, as tensions continue to simmer with Greece and other regional countries in the eastern Mediterranean. Islamist Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday, meanwhile, again tried to rally his supporters and deflect from Turkey’s collapsing economy by…

  Greece’s personal data watchdog authority ruled this week that parents and guardians can merely refer to conscientious reasons, instead of religious grounds, to exclude their children from religious classes in public schools. A written notice is still required for the exclusion.

  Today, Sept. 8, marks UN International Literacy Day, first observed in 1966. This year’s annual commemoration has been designated as a day of “Literacy teaching and learning amid the COVID-19 crisis and beyond”. On their part, Orthodox churches around the world have long promoted literacy programs by operating schools, especially in areas beset by…