The campaign to fund a new support center for pregnant women managed to raise more than 90% of its goal to set up and operate the center in just two months. Thus, $21,070 of the needed $23,280 have been raised, reports the Basilica News Agency. This is the largest amount ever publicly raised from private…

  New York, NY – Today, July 6, 2020, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America reiterated his support of the Archdiocese Benefits Committee (ABC) as they develop a strategy for providing retirement benefits to Clergymen and Lay Employees of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. The ABC is a separate entity led by members who…

New York, June 30, 2020—The Hellenic Film Society USA (HFS) announced the first-ever virtual Greek film festival in the US, to be held July 10-20, 2020. Audiences across the country will have the opportunity to stream ten quality, entertaining Greek films to their devices throughout the US. For many of the films, it will be…

The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America announces a new website offering critical resources for “virtual” Summer Camp and Vacation Church School programs. A Camp Committee made up of ministry leaders from across the Archdiocese (and led by Y2AM’s Resources & Training Coordinator Cassandra Garibaldi) has done excellent work compiling Codes of Conduct, how-to’s, and other…

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  The Church today venerates the memory of Sisoes the Great. This saint, great and renowned among the ascetics of Egypt, lived in the fourth century. Today is also the feast day of new monk-martyr Cyril of Hilandar, who achieved martyrdom in 16th century, after the Ottomans burned him at the stake for not renouncing…

  The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill, on Monday also commented on the spectre of a reconversion of greatest of all cathedrals in eastern Christendom into mosque, saying such demands pose a threat to Christianity. According to Reuters, the Russian Patriarch said “…A threat against Hagia Sophia is a threat to…

  Thousands of Christians continue to abandon their homes in northern Iraq in the wake of air strikes by Turkey’s air force. Accoridng to the group International Christian Concern, since the beginning of Turkey’s airstrikes in northern Iraq, nine of the 11 Christian villages in the Zakho district have beenreportedly evacuated. An increasingly interventionist Ankara…

  The Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Irinej, in a homily after the Divine Liturgy on Sunday at the Russian Church of the Holy Trinity in Belgrade, emphasized that “… nothing is more threatened and persecuted in our days than the institution of the family.”