On his part, the Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, in a message posted on Twitter, noted that “…It was 65 years ago, at night, when the pogrom against the Greek community of Istanbul started…We remember those whose many lives were lost, and their way of life was destroyed by a pre-planned act of terror…

  In referring to the 1955 pogrom, the Ecumenical Patriarch, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Sunday bemoaned the recent conversion of the Hagia Sophia and the Monastery of Chora into mosques, as well as the continuing prohibition against the operation of the Halki School, during an address at the seminary’s ceremony hall, and on…

  The tragic 65-year anniversary of a pogrom against the Greek Orthodox communities of Constantinople, modern-day Istanbul, was grimly observed this week. Mobs descended on the city on the evening of Sept. 6 towards Sept. 7, many being ferried from rural parts outside the Bosporus metropolis, under a detailed plan by the then Menderes government…

Moreover, the latest in a continuing string of provocations and insults by the Erdogan administration against Christianity, and especially against the hard-pressed Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, is a decision to establish an Islamic studies center on the small Marmara Sea island of Halki. Halki hosts the venerable same-day school of theology, the foremost seminary by…

  The Church today venerates the memory of Kassiani the Hymnographer, as well as celebrating the Fore-feast of the Nativity of the Theotokos, the Ever-Virgin Mary.

  The first feast day of the Elder Ephraim Katounakiotis, after his canonization by the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, was held on Sunday in the village of Ampelochori, in the south-central Greek prefecture of Thebes. The Orthodoxia news agency was on hand for an archieratical Divine Liturgy on Sunday morning at the village’s…

  Restoration works have finally begun at the historic St. George Greek Orthodox cathedral in the Egyptian port city of Suez. The specific church was bombed and sustained damage in the Six-Day war in 1967, falling into disrepair in the subsequent decades. The works are the initiative of the Greek community of Cairo, which merged…

At the White House on Friday, Serbian and Kosovar leadership signed an agreement on economic normalization that President Trump hailed as a “truly historic commitment.” The talks leading up to the agreement focused on job creation and eventually establishing lines of transportation from Belgrade to Kosovo’s capital city of Pristina. However, the agreement, signed by…

His Beatitude John X, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East celebrated the Divine Liturgy on Sunday 6, 2020 at the Maryamiyya Cathedral in Damascus  during which Archdeacon Meletios Chattahi was ordained into priesthood. It should be mentioned that Reverend Father Meletios is currently the Acting General Director of the Department of Ecumenical Relations and…