Supreme President George G. Horiates has issued the following statement in remembrance of the 101st anniversary of the Pontian Greek Genocide: “Today, we commemorate the 101-year Pontian Greek Genocide as part of the larger Greek and Christian Genocide where hundreds of thousands of Pontian Greeks were murdered. More than one million more were forced to…

As part of the Hungary Helps Programme, the Government of Hungary is contributing HUF 10 million to the refurbishment of churches vandalised by illegal immigrants on the Greek island of Lesbos. This year, migrants on the island have attacked several sacred places, thereby protesting against the fact that the Greek authorities are preventing their illegal…

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The Metropolitan of Imvros and Tenedos, His Eminence Kyrillos, officiated on Tuesday at the Vespers service at the St. Nicholas Cathedral, on Imvros island’s settlement of Kastro, Greek for castle. The service came on the occasion of the commemoration of the retrieval of the saint’s holy relics. The settlement takes its name from a Byzantine-era…

The public can watch a 2019 documentary on life and works of the Elder Joseph the Hesychast, who was canonized as a saint of the Orthodox Church this year, for 24 hours, beginning on Thursday morning, and specifically online from the webpage of the London Greek Film Festival. The dramatized documentary picked up five “Odysseus”…

The Elder Archimandrite Ephraim’s address and answers to viewers’ questions, part of the third online Archontariki from Mount Athos, which took place last Saturday, have been posted this week on the pages of the Orthodoxia Νews Αgency. Among others, the Elder Ephraim, who is the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, refers…

The Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Divine Beatitude Theodoros II, this week officiated at a blessing ceremony of a new building in the courtyard of the St. Spyridonas Greek Orthodox Cathedral in the historic town of Helwan, just south of the greater Cairo area. Helwan, on the banks of the Nile, was once…

Intense reactions followed another statement by Montenegro president Milo Đukanović over the creation of a so-called “Montenegro Orthodox Church”. In an interview with the Afp, Đukanović, whose government has passed a controversial law that threatens to confiscate assets and relics of religious institutions in the country unless the latter can prove ownership prior to WWI,…

Provocations by the official Turkish state against religious minorities in the predominately Muslim country continue unabated, especially ahead of the next week’s anniversary of the conquest of Constantinople by the Ottoman Turks on May 29, 1453. For instance, the head of Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate, imam Ali Erbas, took to social media to post a…