Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou visited the remote Greek islands of Agathonissi and Lipsi. Her visit to the National Post on Agathonissi and meeting with the mayor, school of nine pupils and other local stakeholders drew the attention of the Turkish media which claim that the island is Turkish despite the Greek established community there. The…

Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios said if Turkey turns the ancient revered Orthodox Cathedral of Aghia Sophia in Constantinople into a mosque it could pit Christians against Muslims again, 567 years after the city that is now called Istanbul fell to Ottoman invaders. The Orthodoxia news agency said the spiritual leader of the Greek Orthodox Church was…

His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch received on 29 June 2020 in the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade His Excellency Gilles Beschoor Plug, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Netherlands to the Republic of Serbia spc.rs

On Sunday June 15/29, 2020, His Beatitude our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos officiated the Divine Liturgy at the Holy Monastery of the Transfiguration of the Lord on Mount Tabor, where He read the following Sermon: “Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we…

The Fourth of July, 2020 To the Most Reverend Hierarchs, the Reverend Priests and Deacons, the Monks and Nuns, the Presidents and Members of the Parish Councils of the Greek Orthodox Communities, the Distinguished Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the Day, Afternoon, and Church Schools, the Philoptochos Sisterhoods, the Youth, the Hellenic Organizations, and the…

In the first convocation of the Tenth Regular Session, the National Assembly of the Republic of Srpska adopted the Declaration on the Protection of Rights of the Serbian Orthodox Church on Free Professing of Faith and the Right on Its Property in Montenegro as well as nine laws. In reference to the Declaration on the…

  To the Archdiocesan Council In New York City (June 29, 2020) Your Eminences, Your Graces, Mr. John Catsimatidis, Archon and Vice-Chair of this Archdiocesan Council, Distinguished members of the Executive Committee and esteemed members of the Archdiocesan Council, Beloved brothers and sisters in Christ, Today, as we meet in this new way as an…

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