Fr. Nikolaos Matar, Dean Priest of the Holy Church of the Nativity of Theotokos in Corona town of the State of California in the U.S.A. continues to falsely claim that he acts under the blessing and guidance of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem despite the enclosed below Release Letter, which was issued to him since the…

  The web-page Ascetic Experience has posted a prolific photographic feature on liturgical life of the semi-autonomous monastic community of Mount Athos, in northern Greece. The original photographic material is the intellectual property of the St. Maximus the Greek Institute, and will soon be made available to international news agencies in a bid to better…

  The first part of the online Archontariki from Mount Athos, with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, and parishioners of the True Cross Holy Cathedral of Tbilisi was posted today on the pages of the Orthodoxia news agency.   

  The first radio broadcast of the Holy Metropolis of Sweden and All Scandinavia was inaugurated on Tuesday afternoon. Radio programs offer spiritual, cultural, news and entertainment content, broadcast every second week from the Metropolis’ online platforms.

  The mayor of Lefkonikos, on the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus, this week charged that the number of ecclesiastical and liturgical items looted from areas occupied by the Turkish military on Cyprus exceeds 60,000. Mayor Zina Lyssandrou cited the widespread destruction of churches, the theft of icons, mosaics and other objects, as well as…

  The Church today venerates the memory of the Holy Apostles Bartholomew and Barnabas, as well as the Revelation of the Hymn Axion Estin, to a monk on Mt. Athos by the Archangel Gabriel. A feature is posted today on the pages of the Diakonima.gr site. The day also marks the patronal feast day for…

Annual US Dept. report details systemic, wide-spread discrimination against minority religious institutions by official Turkey The release of this week’s US State Department Report on International Religious Freedom for 2019 coincides with the latest eyebrow-raising provocations by Turkish leadership, especially threats to reconvert the iconic Hagia Sophia into a mosque. Nevertheless, the breadth of the…

On Pentecost Sunday, Patriarch Daniel spoke about the Church’s practice to bless the fruits on the feast of the descent of the Holy Spirit and to offer prayers for the entire creation. He referred to the significance of the walnut tree leaves sanctified on Sunday and stated that “man sanctifies the place if he keeps…

  His conviction that history will call Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew as “Great” was expressed by His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia. And he explained that this was because, during the almost 30 years of his service as Patriarch, His All Holiness acted and taught precisely as described in the Gospel. “He taught, not so much…