Saint Barbara Greek Orthodox Church New York, New York Beloved Faithful, It is a great joy for me to be with you today, as we celebrate together the Feast-day of our spiritual father, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. For many years, I enjoyed this day in the Queen of Cities, witnessing the crowds of dignitaries…

On the occasion of today’s World Day Against Child Labour, our thoughts and attention turn to an extremely worrying and sad phenomenon that, unfortunately, continues to plague humanity even in the 21st century. Tens of millions of girls and boys throughout the world, almost 10% of all children, according to the latest estimates of the…

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An important day for the primate of the Church of Alexandria and the Orthodox Church of Africa will be June 17, 2020, as it will exactly thirty years since the day he was ordained a Bishop. Specifically, it was on June 17, 1990, when the current Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, Theodore, was ordained…

Fr. Nikolaos Matar, Dean Priest of the Holy Church of the Nativity of Theotokos in Corona town of the State of California in the U.S.A. continues to falsely claim that he acts under the blessing and guidance of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem despite the enclosed below Release Letter, which was issued to him since the…

  The web-page Ascetic Experience has posted a prolific photographic feature on liturgical life of the semi-autonomous monastic community of Mount Athos, in northern Greece. The original photographic material is the intellectual property of the St. Maximus the Greek Institute, and will soon be made available to international news agencies in a bid to better…

  The first 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.   

  The first radio broadcast of the Holy Metropolis of Sweden and All Scandinavia was inaugurated on Tuesday afternoon. Radio programs offer spiritual, cultural, news and entertainment content, broadcast every second week from the Metropolis’ online platforms.

  The mayor of Lefkonikos, on the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus, this week charged that the number of ecclesiastical and liturgical items looted from areas occupied by the Turkish military on Cyprus exceeds 60,000. Mayor Zina Lyssandrou cited the widespread destruction of churches, the theft of icons, mosaics and other objects, as well as…