The Hellenic Initiative Australia has committed $10,000 to Emfasis Foundation to support extra relief being implemented assisting the homeless in Athens during the COVID-19 pandemic. The grant will allow the Emfasis Mobile Support Unit to continue providing support to rough sleepers and vulnerable communities affected by COVID-19 restrictions, including access to safe accommodation and…

Seven young Greek Australians were honoured as part of the Premier’s VCE Awards in Victoria. The ceremony was postponed due to COVID-19 restrictions, however the list published on Victoria’s Education Ministry shed light on the achievements of the state’s high achievers. There were a total of 307 awards given in 95 VCE subjects, with the…

Ioannis Foundoulis Most of the faithful don’t know about this feast. Apart from priests and a few other Christians who are more closely involved with the Church, most don’t even know of its existence. Few go to church on the day and most of them don’t even suspect that the Wednesday after the Sunday of…

Moscow, May 12, Interfax – Head of the Synodal Department for External Church Relations Metropolitan Hilarion spoke out against a mosaic portrait of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to be placed on the wall of the Russian Armed Forces’ main church in the town of Kubinka outside Moscow. “I believe that the images of Stalin definitely…

In Old Valaam, fish farming was one of the main and most profitable branches of the monastery economy. Fish cages appeared in various places of the archipelago during the monastery’s heyday in the mid-19th century, demonsrating the monastery’s skillful use of natural resources in the northern climate. Now, that old tradition is being revived and…

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America has proclaimed May 17 as “AHEPA Sunday” in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. AHEPA Sunday is an annual recognition of a long and cherished relationship between AHEPA and the Greek Orthodox Church in America. The encyclical issued by Archbishop Elpidophoros states, in part: “This year, … all of…

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Third online Archontariki from Mount Athos, with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, will take place on Saturday from 10.00 to 12.30, Athens time, or 08.00 to 10.30 GMT. Archontariki in Greek means the guest house in a monastery. You can register via a webpage form posted…

  The Metropolitan-Bishop of Montenegro and the Littoral, His Eminence Amphilochios, met and made joint statements this week with the Serbian Orthodox Bishop of Niksic, His Grace Ianike, in the wake of imposed measures against the spread of the coronavirus in the small Adriatic country. Both hierarchs also decried what they called the selective and…