Yet another instance of vandalism of a remote chapel on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos was recorded this week. Photographs of the sacrilegious destruction of the chapel, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, at the Tsiramdou site, were posted by an area resident. According to residents in the nearby village, groups of third country nationals…

Today marks the 40 years since the repose of Elder Filotheos Zervakos, a well-known spiritual guide and teacher in the Greek Orthodox ministry for decades. The Elder Filotheos served as a tireless missionary of the Gospels and confessor on many islands and in various rural parts of the country.

The Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, on Thursday convened the Holy Eparchial Synod via video-conference, in order to discuss and decide on a process for the reopening of Greek Orthodox parishes throughout America. During the meeting, hierarchs expressed solidarity and empathy for the pain and loss felt by the Faithful of late, especially the…

The relevant Greek health minister, Vassilis Kikilias, on Thursday said private and institutional donations, in materials and in monetary contributions, to the country’s public health care system, and in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, have reached nearly 90 million euros. The Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece, regional Metropolises in the country and individual parishes…

The Church today venerates the Synaxis, or assembly, of the Holy Powder, or manna, which emitted from the tomb of St. John the Theologian. The feast today in honor of the holy Apostle John commemorates the miracle taking place each year in Ephesus, in western Asia Minor, where a certain dust or powder, called manna,…

A plenum of Council of State (CoS) justices, the highest administrative court in Greece, on Friday ruled that church-going by elementary school and kindergarten pupils is constitutional and legal. The ruling also covers the daily prayer at the commencement of every school day. Conversely, a majority of high court justices ruled that failure to offer…

On Saturday, May 2, 2020, at the cemetery of the Orthodox Metropolis of Korea, the Funeral Service of the late Seraphim Seon Ryul Kim was held, during which His Eminence Metropolitan of Pisidia Soterios delivered the following speech: My brothers, it is with special emotion and pain of soul that today we see off our dear…

The Romanian Patriarchate’s Spokesperson Vasile Banescu said that the return to a normal social life also implies to allow people ‘to exercise their fundamental right to public religious life, that is, inside the places of worship.’ ‘The Romanian Orthodox Church, like the other religious denominations in Romania, will take natural and rigorously argued steps to…

On Saturday, a lot of messages appeared online from the believers saddened to find that, when searching for the name “Cathedral of the Salvation of the Nation” on Android mobile devices, the Google Maps application returned the correct location of the site, but with an offensive title: ‘Cathedral of National Stupidity’. The name of “Romanian…