Having entered the fourth week of quarantine, and in view of the coming of the Holy days of Pascha, being pressured by the stress and fear that is being imposed on us; with the pressure developing from trying to govern the monastery under such circumstances and with deep sadness filling my heart from the…

Mourners have been been left confused by restrictions around visiting cemeteries in Victoria, with police saying people are allowed to mourn as long as they keep to social distancing rules. But that wasn’t the case for Father Emmanuel Lykopandis who claimed on Facebook that he was shut out from visiting Keilor Cemetery on Good Friday….

Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia has attended the meeting held at the Georgian Patriarchate on Monday evening, the PM’s press office has confirmed to InterPressNews. Reportedly, Ekaterine Tikaradze, Minister of Health, and Amiran Gamkrelidze, head of the National Center for Disease Control, have also attended the meeting between the representatives of the Patriarchate and the authorities….

A handful of eastern Aegean islands face their own tribulation amid Holy Easter Week. Remote chapels on the island of Lesvos continue to fall victim to sacrilegious vandals, despite imposed restrictions on movement. The problem is particularly acute around the notorious Moria “hotspot”, where thousands of would-be asylum seekers and illegal migrants, practically all from…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Holy Monday officiated at the Liturgy of the Pre-sanctified Gifts at the Patriarchal Cathedral of St. George, followed by the Matins service in the evening for the next day’s liturgy.   Halfway around the world, the Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, officiated at…

Athens-area parish priest Georgios Schinas justified his decision to offer the Holy Communion outside his church on Palm Sunday, in a letter addressed to the Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece. In his letter, which was published by the Orthodoxia Νews Αgency, Fr. Georgios first notes that he fully respects decisions by…

A homily by the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, is posted today on the online magazine Pemptousia, addressed to pilgrims a day earlier, Holy Monday, in the Mount Athos monastery’s synodical chamber. The Elder Archimandrite’s words are as timely as ever.

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The Metropolitan of Zambia, His Eminence Ioannis, conducted the Divine Liturgy of Palm Sunday at the chapel within the diocese’s compound, without worshipers, and with only a cantor. His Eminence prayed for the Savior to grant all good health, body and soul.