BOSTON – His Eminence Archbishop Sotirios of Canada in a telephone interview with The National Herald regarding the coronavirus in Canada gave assurances that “we will not allow anyone to go hungry.” Despite the fact that Canada has excellent social programs that help people in need the Archbishop emphasized that “our Holy Archdiocese helps those…

AURORA, IL – Greek-American Greg Zanis who made crosses and brought them to the sites of many mass shootings across the United States passed away on May 4 following a battle with bladder cancer, the Chicago Tribune reported. He was 69. Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin said in statement on May 4, the Tribune reported, “Mr….

An interview with Stelios Koukos After his work on the graphic novel ‘Visit to the Loft’, about the childhood of Saint Nektarios, the multi-talented artist Christos Gousidis has now turned his attention to a childhood event in the life of another saint, Saint Porfyrios Kavsokalyvitis. The book is called Τρίτο Ταξίδι, Αλήτης για την αγάπη…

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  The second half of the second online Archontariki from Mount Athos, with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, was posted today on the pages of the Orthodoxia news agency. The Archontariki was held last Saturday. Archontariki in Greek is the guest house in a monastery. Among…

  The central Greece city of Karditsa this week venerated the memory of its patron saint, New Hieromartyr Seraphim, Bishop of the Phanar in Greece. A con-celebratory Divine Liturgy was held on the Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Sts. Constantine and Helen.

  The Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral this week again accused the government in the small Adriatic country of discriminating against the Orthodox Church there. The Orthodox Church reminded that a relaxation of coronavirus-related restrictions makes no mention of the Church or religious services, while directly referring to a “form of violence against Orthodoxy”….

  The Metropolitan of Fthiotida, His Eminence Symeon, this week visited all 20 parish cathedrals in the Metropolis’ seat, in the city of Lamia, in order to personally inspect imposed public health measures for personal worship in churches – and in line with the most recent encyclical issued by the Holy Synod of the Autocephalous…

  The Metropolitan of Corfu, His Eminence Nektarios, addressed a letter to Athens medical school professor Eleni Yiamarellou, a lecturer in pathology and infectious diseases, thanking her for what he called her courage in publicly speaking about her partaking in the Holy Communion. In the letter, His Eminence cites the emotion he felt from the…