A dawn prayer on the occasion of Muslim holiday “Eid al-Adha”, or Eid Qurban, was held today for the first time in 86 years at the iconic Hagia Sophia basilica – coming on the last day of a month that witnessed the shocking decision by Islamist Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to reconvert the landmark…

The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, this week left open the possibility of the Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece again requiring the mandatory use of masks by worshippers, during indoor church services and sacraments. The Archbishop, in an interview with an Athens-based television station, said the measure…

The Church today venerates the memory of Silas, Silvan, Crescens, Epenetus and Andronicus, five of the Apostles of the 70. A feature is posted today on the pages of the diakonima.gr on the lives of these saints.

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A round-table discussion on the topic of “Orthodoxy and Nation” was held this week in Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro, with the participation of the Bishop of Niksic, His Grace Ioannicus. His Grace reminded that, as he said, in the name of Christ, all peoples are one, regardless of the nation from where each individual…

The members of the NCCK (The National Council of Churches), which represents millions of Christians in Korea, are deeply saddened to learn of the Turkish Government’s conversion of Hagia Sophia from a museum to a mosque, and in this statement we strongly protest this unexpected and sad event. This is in direct violation of the…

July 2020 is rapidly emerging as the month when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s administration fully revealed itself as a Islamist agitator on a global scale, with the most shocking provocation, of course, being the conversion of the Hagia Sophia into a mosque – a shocking decision that continues to generate heightened international condemnation. True…

On Tuesday, 28 July, His Eminence Archbishop Makarios paid a visit to Government House in Sydney at the invitation of the Governor of NSW, Her Excellency the Hon. Margaret Beazley. This was only the fourth visitor that the Governor of NSW received since the beginning of the pandemic in March. Mrs Beazley extended a warm…

On 23 July 2020, Bishop Antonije of Moravica, representative of the Patriarch of Serbia to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia and dean of the Representation of the Serbian Patriarchate in Moscow celebrated his 50th birthday. His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia sent a congratulatory message to him with wishes of the…