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 tomorrow, Saturday, from 10.00 a.m. to 12.30 p.m., Athens time, or 08.00 to 10.30 GMT. Archontariki in Greek means the guest house in a monastery. You can still register via…

 The annual procession of the wonder-working icon of the Panaghia Eleousa was held on the 4th Wednesday after Pascha – Mid-Pentecost. The Holy Icon was conveyed this week from the southern Bulgarian city of Asenovgrad to the renowned Bachkovo Monastery of the Dormition of the Theotokos.          

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…

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.

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,…

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.  …

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…

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…

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’…