The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople has once again been targeted by Turkish media, with the latest provocative and offensive article claiming that the Ecumenical Patriarch, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, and members of the ethnic Greek minority in the Bosporus metropolis, provided assistance to Turkish Islamist scholar and preacher Fethullah Gülen and his followers in…
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The bells of the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Alexandria again rang joyously on Sunday after 11 years – with the first bell-ringer, in fact, being the Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Divine Beatitude Theodoros II. A Divine Liturgy was celebrated at the historic cathedral on Sunday, after its thorough renovation. The…
Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Fleur Hassan-Nahoum told the Jerusalem Post over the weekend that although no decision has been taken, as yet, on when holy pilgrimage sites will open in the ancient city, the goal of municipal authorities is develop a special plan once the “green light” is provided. She said, “…We need a thoughtful plan…
Another session of the permanent Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece is scheduled for Tuesday, ahead of Sunday’s opening of places of worship around the country for the holding of services and the Divine Liturgy, in the presence of worshipers. The Church of Greece is expected to table several of its own…
Today is the 4th Monday after Pascha, Great and Holy Easter. The Church today also venerates the memory of Methodius and Cyril, Equal-to-the Apostles, Illuminators of the Slav peoples. May the 11th is also commemorated by Orthodoxy as the Renewal of the Great City of Constantinople. The settlement of Byzantium, on the Bosporus, was chosen…
The 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…
“Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee” (John 5:14). Beloved Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Noble Christians Today, the fourth Sunday after Easter, our Holy Church commemorates the healing of the paralytic man, whom the Lord…
Springboro, Pennsylvania is home to St. Sava Camp Shadeland. A small rural town of only 600 people, Shadeland’s “neighbors” are facing a battle due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result of the need to cancel the 2020 camp season, the Federation of the Circles of Serbian Sisters, Savez K.S.S, decided to donate all unused…