Yesterday a statue of the last Emperor of the Byzantine Empire, often called the Eastern Roman Empire, was unveiled in Athens. In the square of the Holy Metropolis Church of Piraeus (Athens), a statue of Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos, was unveiled. Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos is not only remembered for being the last Byzantine Emperor…

  Webinar in Honor of the Feast Day of St. Augustine of Hippo Featuring Dr. George Demacopoulos Augustine and the Orthodox: “The West” in the East Monday, June 15, 2020 7 – 8 PM (EST) The St. Photios Greek Orthodox National Shrine, located in Saint Augustine, Florida is delighted to present its inaugural webinar, a…

  The life and works of St. Nektarios of Aegina was featured on the prime time newscast of the Athens-based television station Star, on the occasion of the beginning of filming in the country of a US-Greek production on the saint, with Greek and international film actors cast. Filming will continue over the summer. The…

  The Russian Orthodox Church this week called on the faithful in the country not to be hasty in scheduling visits abroad to visit pilgrimage sites, despite an easing of coronavirus restrictions on travel.

  The Feast of Holy Pentecost – the 50th day after the Great and Holy Feast of Easter and 10 days after the Feast of the Ascension of Christ – was celebrated on Monday by the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem. A Divine Liturgy was celebrated at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, officiated by…

  Debate continued on Tuesday in a relevant Parliament committee over a draft bill on changes in Greece’s public education sector, which among others, retains the low number of hours for weekly instruction in religious studies, while excluding this lesson from end-of-the-year exit exams.

  The Metropolitan-Bishop of Montenegro and the Littoral, His Eminence Amphilochios, again referred to the major struggle facing the Orthodox Church in the small Adriatic country and the continued persecution of the Church, its hierarchs and faithful by the current Montenegrin government. His Eminence spoke from the cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in Podgorica,…

  Turkey’s increasingly Islamist president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, continued his provocations this week by again threatening to reconvert the Hagia Sophia into a mosque, nearly nine decades after a secular Turkish government turned the greatest of all cathedrals of eastern Christendom into a widely-visited museum. Taking to Turkey’s state-run radio-television network on Monday evening, Erdogan…

GOMNJ VIRTUAL GREEK SCHOOL GRADUATION TO BE HELD SUNDAY, JUNE 14, 2020 AT 2:00pm Westfield, NJ June 8, 2020: It is with much joy and enthusiasm that His Eminence, MetropolitanEvangelos of New Jersey announces that the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of NewJersey will host a Virtual Greek School Graduation on Sunday, June 14, 2020 at2:00pm. Unfortunately, due…