NEW YORK – On Saturday, June 13, 2020, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Office of Education honored graduates from the Greek Orthodox Archdiocesan Schools with a virtual commencement. Hundreds of graduates from all the District Greek Orthodox Archdiocesan Schools participated while families and friends watched via the Greek Education Facebook page. Offering congratulatory…

  BROOKLINE, MA — Orthodox Christian Fellowship’s Summer Leadership Institute will be offered from June 27 – August 9, 2020 as a six-week virtual leadership training course for college students and young adults (ages 18-25). Attendees can expect to learn what it means to be an Orthodox leader in OCF, the Church, and the world….

New York, June 16, 2020 – The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (GOARCH) announces the distribution of more than $250,000 from the Archdiocese Covid-19 Relief Fund on behalf of those affected by the Covid-19 global pandemic in the USA. The Fund is active, as the number of donors, especially small amount donors, continues to rise…

Aformer Muslim from Yemen—now a believer living under quarantine outside his native land—shared this rare glimpse inside the troubled country and how Christians are responding in the growing COVID-19 crisis. A growing deadly crisis Last week, the United Nations reported that in Yemen, the health system has “in effect” collapsed, Since the first COVID-19 case…

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The Church today venerates the memory of Tychon the Wonderworker, Bishop of Amathus on Cyprus. A feature is posted today on the life, works and miracles of St. Tychon on the pages of the Diakonima.gr site.

The Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of New Jersey, His Eminence Evangelos, addressed this year’s graduates of Greek-language afternoon schools operated by the metropolis in the state, via teleconference, and at a “virtual graduation” ceremony. The ceremony was broadcast live by the metropolis’ internet channel. 

Tension continues to simmer in Montenegro over what the Orthodox Church in the small Adriatic country charges is systemic persecution against it and its clergy by the Montenegro state, just days before the trial of the Bishop of Niksic, His Eminence Ioannicus, and another eight Orthodox clergymen. After nearly three months, peaceful prayer rallies, litanies…

Official voices in Turkey continue to press for the reconversion of the iconic Hagia Sophia into a mosque, from its current status as the country’s most visited museum. Turkey’s high court is expected to rule on July 2 over yet another petition to convert what was eastern Christendom’s most important cathedral for nearly a millennium…