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…

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The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, on Thursday again revisited the increasingly pressing issue of the Hagia Sophia, as efforts by the Erdogan administration in Turkey to reconvert the iconic monument into a mosque have generated heightened international concern and condemnations by Christians around the world. Speaking after an extraordinary session…

The Church today venerates the memory of Hieromartyr Pancratius, the Bishop of Tauromenium in Sicily, and a contemporary of the Disciples.

The 10-year anniversary of the establishment of a care center for expectant mothers in Moldavia, operated by the Orthodox Metropolis of Bessarabia of the Patriarchate of Romania, was commemorated this week. The center offers support to both expectant mothers and single mothers who face problems, as well as vocational training. The center is the product…

Members of the Archdiocese of America’s Holy Eparchial Synod met on Wednesday in an extraordinary video conference, at the invitation of His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros, with the exclusive objective being to discuss the issue of an official proposal to change the pension program of Church hierarchs. A communique later issued by the Holy Eparchial Synod…