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15.05.2020 | 19:34
‘Man of God’ director Yelena Jopovic’s exclusive interview to Orthodoxia News Agency – (VIDEO)
The screenwriter, director and producer of the upcoming movie “Man of God”, North America-based Yelena Popovic, spoke to the Orthodoxia News Agency this month, in an exclusive interview. The film recounts the life and trials of St. Nektarios of Aegina, who bore the unjust hatred of his enemies while preaching the Word of God. Popovic…
15.05.2020 | 19:28
Bishop of Southern Madagascar: Faithful in Africa have love for services, Holy Communion
The Bishop of Toliara and Southern Madagascar, His Grace Prodromos, detailed to the Orthodoxia News Agency this week the restrictions in place in that country to prevent exposure to the Covid-19 virus. His Grace also emphasized the love that the faithful in Africa have for the holy services and the Holy Communion.
15.05.2020 | 19:25
Int’l Day of Families today
Today, Friday May 15, marks the International Day of Families, an annual commemoration enacted in 1993 by the UN General Assembly in recognition of the fact that the institution of the family is a primary component of each society. According to St. Paisios, “…the value of life is one: the family; if the family expires,…
15.05.2020 | 19:22
Feast Day of St. Andreas the Hermit
The Church and the faithful in the western Greece coastal town of Amphilochia today commemorate the feast day of St. Andreas the Hermit. A cave where the 13th century hermit lived for three decades, focusing on prayer and solitude, and near a lake next to the village of Halkiopoulo, is today a pilgrimage site. …
15.05.2020 | 19:13
Church today venerates memory of Pachomius the Great
Today is the 4th Friday after Pascha, Great and Holy Easter Sunday. The Church today venerates the memory of Pachomius the Great. The son of pagans in third century upper Egypt, he was baptized in roughly 313 — after being briefly conscripted into the Roman army. While St. Anthony the Great is the father of…
15.05.2020 | 19:05
Metropolitan of Germany: If we had ignored restrictions, authorities would have sent police to keep churches closed
The Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of Germany, His Eminence Augoustinos, spoke with the Orthodoxia News Agency this week, on the occasion of an encyclical he issued to the clergy and laity, regarding measures and restrictions for places of worship in Germany, due to the coronavirus pandemic. In reference to a temporary prohibition imposed by German authorities…
15.05.2020 | 19:00
Protests continue in Montenegro in anger over stepped up persecution of Orthodoxy; Bishop remains jailed
Peaceful but determined protests are continuing in the small Adriatic country of Montenegro over the continued incarceration of the Bishop of Niksic, His Grace Ioannicus, along with another seven Orthodox clerics. Thousands of protesters gathered on Thursday evening outside the monastery of St. George, the seat of the Bishop of Niksic, to demand the clerics’…
15.05.2020 | 18:07
UOC temples to pray for the victims of political reprisals of 1937-1938
On the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repressions, the UOC will offer prayers for all those who suffered a tragic death from godless authorities. On May 17, 2020 with the blessing of His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kyiv and All Ukraine, prayers will be offered in all temples and monasteries of the…
15.05.2020 | 18:04
UOC hierarch urges Ministry of Health to explain quarantine exit stages
The hierarch asked his ex-course mate – the Health Minister of Ukraine – to justify the stages proposed by the Cabinet of Ministers for quarantine phasing-out. On May 13, 2929, Metropolitan Luke (Kovalenko) of Zaporizhia and Melitopol called on the Minister of Health of Ukraine Maxim Stepanov, who was once the hierarch’s course mate, to…
