Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios This Sunday honors a remarkable missionary, someone who proved to be more than what society thought of her. It is St. Photini (the name means “Enlightened One”), who was the Samaritan woman Jesus met at Jacob’s well, as described in today’s Gospel reading. She was from Samaria, a people the Jews…

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SPECIAL PRAYER SERVICE: Tuesday, May 26, 2020 at 12:30pm His Eminence, Metropolitan Evangelos of New Jersey to Lead Prayer Service for the Health of those afflicted from COVID-19 & for the repose of those who have fallen asleep. Submit the names of your loved ones on this Online Prayer Name Submission Page The online prayer…

Supreme President George G. Horiates has issued the following statement on the sad news of the passing of Eugene T. Rossides, founder of the American Hellenic Institute, who died May 16, 2020. He was 92. “The members of the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association deeply mourn the passing of AHEPA Life Member Eugene T. Rossides,…

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  The Metropolitan of Zambia, His Eminence Ioannis, on Sunday officiated at a memorial service at the Metropolitan Cathedral’s side chapel, for the victims of the Pontian Genocide, ahead of Tuesday’s May 19 commemoration of the 101st anniversary of the genocide. With tears in his eyes, the Metropolitan prayed before the holy icon of St….

  The US Commission on international religious freedom, an independent, bipartisan US federal government commission, this month issued its annual report, covering the year 2019. In the report, and specifically referring to predominately Muslim Turkey, the report states that religious freedom conditions in Turkey remained worrisome, with the perpetuation of restrictive and intrusive governmental policies…

  The Russian Orthodox Church over the weekend inaugurated a program whereby clerics can meet and comfort patients in hospitals via an online platform, including patients treated for the coronavirus. The platform and meetings were organized by Moscow Patriarchate’s Synodal Department for Church Charity and Social Ministry.

  The Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II, spoke after the Divine Liturgy on Sunday at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in Tbilisi, on the institution of the family, which was commemorated in the Caucasus country the same day. In his sermon, the Georgian Patriarch noted that “today we celebrate…