The Church today venerates the Nativity of Our Most Holy Lady, the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary. A feature is posted today on the Panaghia Tsambika and Panaghia SkiadeNI, two toponyms and dedicated pilgrimages associated with the Virgin Mary on the Dodecanese island of Rhodes.  

On Saturday, 5 September 2020, the clergy of the church of Saint Sava, the first Archbishop of Serbia, in Mrkonjic Grad and the faithful along with His Grace Bishop Sergije of Bihac-Petrovac gathered in order to welcome Their Graces Bishops Jovan of Slavonia and retired Bishop of Middle Europe Konstantin. The high guests arrived to…

The holiday of the Holy Martyr Irinej, Bishop of Lyon, and Holy Martyr Lupus of Novae were prayerfully celebrated in the monastery of Pakra on 5 September 2020. With the clergy and the faithful people, Bishop Jovan of Pakrac-Slavonia officiated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the monastery church of the Presentation of the Most Holy…

Actors are beginning to arrive in Greece for continued shooting of Yelena Popovic’s film, Man of God, about the great 20th-century hierarch and wonderworker St. Nektarios of Aegina. Filming initially began on June 8. Alexander Petrov arrived in Greece late in the evening on Saturday, September 5. The Russian actor will play a close assistant…

  The city of Ekaterinburg is currently in the midst of a week dedicated to traditional family values, centered around the feast of Sts. Peter and Fevronia, the patrons of family, love, and loyalty, which will be celebrated on September 13 this year. In 2012, the Holy Synod of the Russian Church established the feast…

  A special anniversary was marked in the Russian Orthodox Church over the weekend, with the celebration of 50 years since the founding of the Patriarchal Parishes in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The celebration on September 5 and 6 was timed to coincide with the anniversary of the repose of Metropolitan Nikodim (Rostov),…

St. Joseph the Hesychast, one of the greatest saints of the 20th century, was canonized by the Patriarchate of Constantinople in March. The Patriarchate established the feast of St. Joseph as August 16/29 so as not to coincide with the feast of the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos on which he reposed in 1959….

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  In a related development, the Turkish government has issued yet another notification towards mariners, extending to Sept. 25, warning of seismic research in a stretch of the eastern Mediterranean that lies in Greece’s continental shelf, with the research vessel accompanied by Turkish warships – something that maintains Ankara’s war-mongering and belligerence in the wider…