The Metropolitan of Cameroon, His Eminence Grigorios, spoke to the Orthodoxia news agency this week on matters of faith, the Holy Communion and the difficulties of maintaining a mission in sub-Saharan Africa. Still in the region, the Metropolitan of Nairobi, His Eminence Makarios, remains close to his flock amid the difficult times entailed in the…

The state-sponsored persecution of the Orthodox Church in Montenegro generated a statement from the US State Department this week, with Washington, however, attempting to keep equal distances in the furor that has erupted since the beginning of the year. The US called on both the government and Church to commence a dialogue and to exhibit…

The Elder Archimandrite Ephraim’s address and answers to viewers’ questions, part of the third online Archontariki from Mount Athos, which took place last Saturday, have been posted today on the pages of the Orthodoxia news agency. Among others, the Elder Ephraim, who is the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, refers to…

Central Macedonia regional governor Apostolos Tzitzikostas headed a meeting on Monday convened to gauge progress in restoring weather-related damages on the semi-autonomous monastic community of Mount Athos. The damages were the result of particularly heavy thunderstorms on the northern Greece peninsula last month. Tzitzikostas noted that “…we have a debt to protect Mount Athos”. In…

Today, May 19, is Pontian Genocide Remembrance Day in Greece. The day marks the landing of Kemal Αtaturk in the Black Sea port city of Samsun in 1919, for the commencement of what is known in Turkey as the war of independence. For Greek Pontians, however, this event marked the beginning of the second phase of…

Today is the 5th Tuesday after Pascha, Holy and Great Easter Sunday. The Church today venerates the memory of Patrick, the Hieromartyr and Bishop of Prusa, present-day Bursa, and His Fellow Martyrs Acacius, Menander, and Polyaenus.

What follows is a story about the uprooting of Greeks from their ancestral homeland in Pontos, the Black Sea coastal region. Greeks began trading here in about 1,000 BC, with the first permanent settlements being established some 200 years later. So this region was as much a part of the Greek world as mainland Greece,…

His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch officiated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the church of Saint George in Bezanija, in Belgrade, on 17 May 2020. The Patriarch was concelebrated by presbyters Vladimir Levicanin and Zelimir Prodanovic, as well as deacons Radomir Vrucinic and Darko Radovanovic. spc.rs

High School graduation is a time-honored tradition. After years of studying, exploring new opportunities and expanding your horizons, thousands of high school seniors anxiously anticipate wearing the cap and gown representing their school colors, processing towards the stage, and receiving their diploma for which they have worked so hard. But, not in 2020. The Coronavirus…