The municipality of Sofia will allocate more than $75,000 to two Orthodox churches and one monastery throughout the city after the relevant report was reviewed and adopted by the City Council’s Standing Committee on Culture and Education last month. The St. John of Rila Monastery in the Kurilo neighborhood of Sofia will receive $17,335 (30,000…

A day before the Joint Ministerial Decision dictating quarantine measures in Greece, including for churches, was set to expire, the Ministry of Education and Religions and the Ministry of Health issued new directives, extending the measures through August 21. Specifically, the previous decision regarding the “imposition of temporary measures in religious places of worship for…

NEW YORK – His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America made his first archpastoral visit to Kimisis Tis Theotokou in Poughkeepsie, New York, where he was warmly received by the congregants participating in the Divine Liturgy with all the preventive rules due to the Coronavirus pandemic. At the entrance to the nave the Archbishop was welcomed…

  IMVROS. The enthronement of the new Metropolitan Kyrillos of Imvros and Tenedos, will take place, on Saturday, July 18, 2020, at 12 noon, at the Dormition of the Virgin Mary Cathedral, in Panagia Imvros, officiating by His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. The same evening Metropolitan Kirillos will officiate at the Great Vespers at…

NEW YORK – Today, July 9, 2020, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America visited his local Police station, the 19th Precinct, which covers the neighborhood of the Archdiocese, and dialogued with Captain Kathleen Walsh and members of the force, including three Greek- Americans, Officers Stephan Koustoubardis, Irene Prentzas and Panagiotis Koutsoudilakis. The Archbishop had been…

A new music video from the Emmy Award-winning actor and musician and convert to holy Orthodoxy Jonathan Jackson dedicated to the holy sites of the persecuted Serbian Orthodox Church in Kosovo was published on June 28 on the YouTube page of the Foundation of Hilandar Monastery. The song, “Kosovo (Joy of All Who Sorrow),” “was…

The AHEPA National Educational Foundation, in partnership with the Mavroyannis family, is proud to continue to meet its commitment to make higher education affordable and accessible with the availability of the Constantine and Patricia Mavroyannis Scholarship, announced Supreme President George G. Horiates and National Educational Foundation Chairman George Vorkas. The Constantine and Patricia Mavroyannis Scholarship…

A Turkish court is likely to announce on Friday that the 1934 conversion of Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia into a museum was unlawful, two Turkish officials said, paving the way for its restoration as a mosque despite international concerns. President Tayyip Erdogan has proposed restoring the mosque status of the sixth-century UNESCO World Heritage Site, which…

We think it will be a wise step today if the Hagia Sophia remains a neutral place, This is stated in the statement released by the Georgian Patriarchate. As statement notes, the Georgian Patriarchate hopes that “attitude to this matter will be understood by the friendly country not as our interference in its internal affairs…