The second half of the second online Archontariki from Mount Athos, with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, was posted today on the pages of the Orthodoxia news agency. The Archontariki was held last Saturday. Archontariki in Greek is the guest house in a monastery. Among…

  The central Greece city of Karditsa this week venerated the memory of its patron saint, New Hieromartyr Seraphim, Bishop of the Phanar in Greece. A con-celebratory Divine Liturgy was held on the Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Sts. Constantine and Helen.

  The Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral this week again accused the government in the small Adriatic country of discriminating against the Orthodox Church there. The Orthodox Church reminded that a relaxation of coronavirus-related restrictions makes no mention of the Church or religious services, while directly referring to a “form of violence against Orthodoxy”….

  The Metropolitan of Fthiotida, His Eminence Symeon, this week visited all 20 parish cathedrals in the Metropolis’ seat, in the city of Lamia, in order to personally inspect imposed public health measures for personal worship in churches – and in line with the most recent encyclical issued by the Holy Synod of the Autocephalous…

  The Metropolitan of Corfu, His Eminence Nektarios, addressed a letter to Athens medical school professor Eleni Yiamarellou, a lecturer in pathology and infectious diseases, thanking her for what he called her courage in publicly speaking about her partaking in the Holy Communion. In the letter, His Eminence cites the emotion he felt from the…

  His Beatitude Archbishop Chrysostomos on Monday evening spoke with Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades. The Primate of the Church of Cyprus reassured the latter that the Church will strictly apply all public health precautions and guidelines for the return of worshipers to cathedrals and chapels.

  The Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II, referred to the Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women, which was celebrated on Sunday, May 3, in his homily for the day. Among others, His Beatitude emphasized that with their faith they bore the entire Church on their shoulders. The Patriarch of Georgia also…

  In sub-Saharan Africa the Covid-19 pandemic has merely added yet another possible calamity for millions of people in under-developed parts of the continent, which is already battered by disease, hunger and a lack of clean drinking water. International humanitarian aid organizations are already warning of the possibility of a famine of “Biblical” proportions. It’s…

  Today is the third Tuesday after Pascha, Holy and Great Easter Sunday. The Church today also venerates the memory of Irene the Great Martyr. At least two churches were dedicated to St. Irene in Constantinople, and she is also the patroness of the southern Aegean island of Thera, which is commonly known as Santorini,…