The Kallinikeion Institute at Hellenic College Holy Cross is an intensive Modern Greek language program sponsored by the Kallinikeion Foundation, offering two courses in Modern Greek, one at the beginning level and one at the intermediate level, with all classes taught by members of the HCHC faculty. This year the program, which is open to…

ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America New York City Christ is Risen! The Mother Church of Constantinople that partakes of the crucifixion, the much revered Ecumenical Patriarchate, has this year celebrated the annual commemoration of the Holy, Glorious, Great-Martyr George the Trophy-Bearer. And in the course of the celebration of the Holy Eucharist…

His Grace Bishop Ioan Casian of Canada has urged the clergy and faithful within his jurisdiction to pray in the coming days for all those affected – living or asleep, by the tragic event that took place in the province of Nova Scotia in eastern Canada:  Christ is risen! With great sadness, the Romanian Orthodox…

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Law enforcement authorities in Greece continued to investigate the placement of an incendiary device planted outside the entrance of the Petraki Monastery building in central Athens, where members of the Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece convene. According to initial reports, three suitcases and a large cooking gas canister, all connected together,…

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill, this week called on Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin to personally intervene for a temporary suspension in utilities payments owed by Church-affiliated institutions in the vast country. The Russian patriarch cited the severe problems caused by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Members of the St. George Greek Orthodox congregation in Bethesda, Maryland, showed their appreciation for their parish priest, Fr. Dimitrios Antokas, and his tireless holding of Easter Week services in an empty cathedral, by holding a drive-by procession in front of the church after Easter Sunday. In a statement to local media, parishioner Frances Solovieff…

Turkey’s official tourism agency has again featured Greek Orthodox religious sites, many now being feverishly renovated, in its promotion campaign, called, interestingly enough, “Turkish Spirituality”. The latest such video posted on YouTube shows the iconic church of St. Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, in the wider Antalya region of southern Asia Minor, and specifically at the…

Today, April 22, marks the sad seven-year anniversary since the abduction of Metropolitan Paul Yazigi, of the Patriarchate of Antioch’s Archdiocese of Aleppo, and Syriac Orthodox Archbishop of Aleppo Yohanna Ibrahim. Both hierarchs were abducted by Islamist militants while traveling by car to negotiate the release of two other kidnapped priests. No confirmed reports of…