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Today will be remembered as an ominous day for Christianity, especially for Orthodoxy and its hundreds of millions of faithful around the world, as Turkey’s highest administrative court issued a ruling that paves the way for the Erdogan administration to reconvert the iconic Hagia Sophia – the greatest of all basilicas in eastern Christendom –…

Turkey’s top administrative court on Friday annulled the 1934 government decree that turned Hagia Sophia into museum. The long-awaited ruling opens the way for Istanbul’s iconic Hagia Sophia to be used as a mosque. The Hagia Sophia, one of the world’s most important historical and cultural heritage sites, was built in the sixth century during…

  Hundreds of Greek families in Melbourne are facing desperate times due to the second lockdown that is about to be enforced at midnight tonight. These people, mainly newly-arrived immigrants from Greece, who survived the first lockdown with the help of Greek organisations, are now faced with even harder circumstances. They are without work, since…

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…