Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Friday essentially gave the go-ahead to his increasingly Islamist administration to reconvert the iconic Hagia Sophia – the pre-eminent cathedral in eastern Christendom for nearly a millennium – back into a mosque. According to the Turkish mass daily Hürriyet, the authoritarian Erdoğan said Ankara may start work to change…

“FARE THEE WELL OUR BELOVED BROTHER IN THE LORD OF OUR MAKARIOS III SEMINARY- NAIROBI On behalf of the Orthodox Diocese of Nyeri & Mt. Kenya, we send our sincere condolence to family, relatives, church,friends and the entire MAKARIOS III SEMINARY FRATERNITY. I worked with the late Philosophy and History Lecturer Mr. Zakayo Njunge at…

On this year’s World Environment Day, celebrated on June 5, the UN is drawing links between the health of the planet, and human health, and highlighting the importance of protecting biodiversity, the system that supports life. “At least 70 per cent of emerging infectious diseases” such as COVID-19, are crossing from the wild, to people,…

World Environment Day (WED) is celebrated on 5 June every year and is the United Nations principal vehicle for encouraging awareness and action for the protection of our environment. First held in 1974, it has been a flagship campaign for raising awareness on emerging from environmental issues to marine pollution, human overpopulation, and global warming,…

  On 31st May 2020, on the Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council, His Grace Bishop of Buda Lucian officiated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the Pecs Cathedral of Saints Andronicus and Junia, the enlighteners of Pannonia, on the occasion of the celebration of the patron saint of the Cathedral. He…

The Patron Saint-day (slava) of the church of Holy Emperor Constantine and Helen, Equal-to-the-Apostles, in the Vozdovac district of Belgrade was marked with a solemn Patriarchal Liturgy. His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, officiated the service with the concelebration of protopresbyter-staurophors Branko Topalovic and Dragomir Ubiparipovic, protopresbyter Djordje Popovic, presbyter Sladjan Vlajic, as well as deacons…

It is with great pleasure that the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain announces its co-sponsorship of the Conference of European Churches’ 7th Summer School (online webinar) focusing on Human Rights 7-10 July 2020. This sponsorship was made possible by a recent donation made to the Archdiocese to specifically support projects and initiatives…

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Saint Paisios the Athonite Elder, did you tell anybody that war’s coming? That’s what we’ve heard. Is it true? I haven’t said anything, but people say what they want. Even if I knew something, who would I tell it to? It’s a barbaric thing, war, Elder. If people didn’t have this … ‘benign’ attitude as…