The Metropolitan of Nairobi and Exarch of Kenya, His Eminence Makarios, spoke with the Orthodoxia news agency and journalist Maria Giachnaki this week. Among others, His Eminence referred to the passion and thirst by the faithful in Africa for the holy services and sacraments. Additionally, he spoke at length over the strength that African parishioners…

  Members of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece’s permanent Holy Synod convened on Tuesday, amid a peaceful protest outside the Petraki Monastery, in central Athens, by some 30 demonstrators, who demanded the immediate reopening of cathedrals throughout the country for the holding of services with the presence of worshipers. The Church of Greece has…

  Today is the 4th Tuesday after Pascha, Great and Holy Easter Sunday. The Church today venerates the memory of Epiphanius of Salamis, a 4th century Bishop and Church father, who ministered and spread the Gospels on eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus. St. Epiphanius gained a reputation as a strong defender of Orthodoxy during his…

GREEK ORTHODOX METROPOLIS OF NEW JERSEY Pontian Greek Genocide Remembrance 2020 The Very Reverend and Reverend Clergy Esteemed Members of the Metropolitan Council, Esteemed Members of the Parish Councils, Philoptochos Sisterhood, Faculty and Students of the Catechetical and Greek Afternoon Schools, Directors and Participants of all Youth Organizations, and all devout Orthodox Christians of the…

  NEW YORK – Two graduation ceremonies will be held online with the participation of the Archbishop Elpidophoros of America on Saturday, June 6, by the Day and Afternoon Greek schools of the Direct Archdiocesan District.As the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Director of the Department of Greek Education, Anastasios Koularmanis, told The National Herald,…

FAIRVIEW, NJ – The Ascension Greek Orthodox Church Parking Lot, 101 Anderson Avenue in Fairview, is among the locations scheduled to open this week offering mobile testing for the coronavirus, NJ.com reported on May 9. Bergen County, in partnership with Bergen New Bridge Medical Center, will offer walk-up saliva tests for COVID-19 infection and COVID-19…

His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel Sunday expressed his hope that the faithful will be able to attend the divine services shortly. Especially during this period, ‘when many people suffer spiritually from anxiety and fear,’ church services are ‘a healing from solitude and restlessness.’ ‘In this period, we also suffer because our beloved faithful cannot physically, directly…

Christians in Lebanon returned to cathedrals and chapels for worship after two months, as the government moved towards a gradual easing of coronavirus restrictions. Public health precautions, such as social distancing, are still in place, however.

A trisagion service was held on Saturday at the memorial to the Unknown Soldier in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, in remembrance of the roughly 300,000 Georgians who fought and died in World War II on the side of the Red Army. Saturday marked the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II in…