Podgorica | June 11, 2020 Dear Brothers and Sisters; Dear Fellow Citizens; Dear Friends, Today is the birthday of the Church but also the second consecutive the Holy Trinity Day that we spend here in our country of Montenegro with anxiety, fearing that our nation’s government will act upon its announced intention of the nationalisation…

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Metropolitan Methodios of the Metropolis of Boston announces that the Metropolis will host its first-ever Virtual Ministry Awards Recognition, honoring Clergy and Laity of our Communities, during which we recognize, celebrate, and thank the faithful stewards of our local parishes for their dedicated service. The event will air online on Sunday, June 14,…

The second part of the online Archontariki from Mount Athos, with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, and parishioners of the True Cross Holy Cathedral of Tbilisi was posted today on the pages of the Orthodoxia News Agency and Pemptousia.

The Church today venerates the memory of Onuphrius of Egypt and Peter the Athonite. The lives and works of both these saints are detailed today on the pages of the Diakonima.gr site.

A new children’s book on the life of St. Porphyrios Kafsokalivitis is ready for publication, an initiative by the Holy Metropolis of Lovets of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.

Deputy Foreign Minister Costas Vlassis arrived on the semi-autonomous monastic community of Mount Athos on Friday, in order to attend a handover ceremony on Sunday, whereby new representatives of monasteries will assume the Holy Community’s administration. Vlassis was accompanied by Mount Athos’ civil governor, Athanasios Martinos. According to reports, among the monasteries that Vlassis will…

More instances of vandalism against churches and monuments were reported in Greece over the past week. A bust of St. Chrysostomos of Smyrma, in the Nikaia district of Piraeus, was vandalized by unknown perpetrators, causing anger and sadness amongst local residents. Another instance of vandalism was also reported on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos,…

Members of the Episcopal Council of the Orthodox Church in Montenegro this week charged that recent developments in the small Adriatic country clearly point to the fact that the Montenegrin government has essentially terminated dialogue with the Church over a controversial law on religious institutions. According to the Orthodox Church in Montenegro, the specific law…

A US State Department official on Friday reiterated Washington’s belief in the protection of “complex multi-religious history” of Hagia Sophia, a UNESCO World Heritage site and the foremost cathedral of eastern Christendom for nearly a millennium before being converted into a “conquest mosque” after Constantinople fell to the Ottomans in 1453. Greece’s state-run news agency…