June 5, 2020 To all the faithful of the Metropolis of Atlanta: My beloved children in the Lord, I greet you with love in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Like so many of my fellow citizens, and indeed, others around the world, I also join them in expressing the extreme pain…

EDITOR’S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis): Metropolitan of Mesogaias Nikolaos has more medical and scientific credentials than most of the doctors we are seeing daily on TV, and at the same time he happens to be one of the greatest Orthodox leaders of our time. This speech was originally published in July 2010 as a response to the swine…

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Podgorica, Montenegro (2 June 2020) – The dialogue between the Serbian Orthodox Church and the Government of Montenegro will continue once the conditions are met, while the ultimate success of that dialogue depends largely on whether both sides will enter into a renewed dialogue sincerely, in good faith, taking into account arguments of the other…

The Church today venerates the Holy Hieromartyr Dorotheus, Bishop of Tyre. A feature is posted today on the pages of the diakonima.gr site.

The third part of the fourth Archontariki from Mount Athos, with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, has been posted today on the pages of the online magazine Pemptousia and on the pages of the Orthodoxia News Agency. The fourth Archontariki was held last Saturday.

A litany commemorating the memory of St. John, or Jovan Vladimir, was held on Thursday afternoon at the coastal Montenegro city of Bar. The litany, accompanied by children dressed in white or with traditional attire, began from the cathedral dedicated to the Orthodox saint and proceeded through the center of the city. Jovan Vladimir was…

The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, issued a message this week on the occasion of today’s World Environment Day, as the Primate of the Church of Greece noted that “… our Holy Church continuously prays to God for the conservation and protection of the environment. He reminds us through the Holy…

European Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement, Olivér Várhelyi, was asked this week about the tense situation in the small Adriatic country of Montenegro, in the wake of continued protests there against a controversial law that the Serbian Orthodox Church charges is a thinly veiled attempt by the Montenegro state to seize its assets and relics….