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21.04.2020 | 23:20
Touching past Easter images of reposed Elder Ephraim of Arizona – (VIDEO)
A video posted on the Orthodoxia News Agency shows touching scenes from past Easter services at the Holy Monastery of St. Anthony in the Sonora Desert in Arizona, including images of the reposed Elder Ephraim of Arizona. The reposed Elder is shown with his spiritual offspring officiating at the Holy Saturday service of the Resurrection…
21.04.2020 | 23:14
Christian advocacy group warns of danger to Christians in Sub-Saharan countries also at-risk from Covid-19
According to the Open Doors World Watch Research unit, data indicates a direct correlation between countries in sub-Saharan Africa that are most vulnerable to the coronavirus and the countries where Christians face the most pressure for following their faith. Specifically, four of the five most virus-vulnerable countries—the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Sudan and…
21.04.2020 | 23:03
Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain thanks Boris Johnson for Easter message
The Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain expressed its appreciation to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson for his best wishes, on the occasion of the celebration of Holy and Great Easter by the Orthodox faithful in the United Kingdom. The Archdiocese also conveyed its hope to Johnson for a speedy recovery from his coronavirus infection….
21.04.2020 | 23:00
Archdiocese of Canada statement of condolences for mass shooting victims
The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Canada issued a statement regarding a mass shooting in Nova Scotia over the weekend. The statement read, “…His Eminence Archbishop Sotirios, together with the entire plenitude of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Canada, mourns the tragic and senseless loss of life that took place in Nova Scotia …The Archdiocese grieves…
21.04.2020 | 22:53
Metropolitan of Imvros & Tenedos laments ‘lonely’ Easter for Orthodox faithful on the 2 isles
The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople’s newly enthroned Metropolitan of Imvros and Tenedos, His Eminence Kirillos, referred to a lonesome Easter experienced this year by the remaining Greek Orthodox faithful on the two islands in the northeast Aegean, as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. The measures imposed in Turkey, which formally possessed the two isles…
21.04.2020 | 22:51
Russian President thanks Patriarch amid coronavirus restrictions
Russian President Vladimir Putin this week thanked the Orthodox faithful in the vast country for complying with coronavirus-related public health restrictions during Easter Week. In a letter to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill, the Russian president expressed his deep gratitude for the former’s responsible and tireless work, as he said,…
21.04.2020 | 22:43
Holy Icon of the Theotokos Axion Estin on Mount Athos
A litany of the Holy Icon of the Theotokos Axion Estin was held on Bright Monday at the capital of the semi-autonomous monastic community of Mount Athos, Karyes. Some 70 representatives of the holy monasteries on the northern Greece peninsula participated in the litany, all following prescribed social distances, while the Holy Icon was accompanied…
21.04.2020 | 22:35
Second day of Bright Week; Church commemorates Sts. Raphael, Nicholas, Irene, and Other Newly-revealed Martyrs of Lesbos
Today is Renewal Tuesday, the second day after Holy and Great Easter Sunday. The Church today also commemorates Sts. Raphael, Nicholas, Irene, and the Other Newly-revealed Martyrs of Lesbos, in the eastern Aegean. The trio achieved the crown of martyrdom 10 years after the fall of Constantinople, at the hands of Moslem pirates. The larger…
21.04.2020 | 21:00
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