The Archbishop of Cyprus, His Beatitude Chrysostomos, on Friday visited the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, where he was received by the Ecumenical Patriarch, His All Holiness Bartholomew I. The two Church hierarchs will co-officiate on Sunday, during a service commemorating the Sunday of Orthodoxy.  

Archimandrite Gervasios Raptopoulos reposed in the Lord on Friday morning. Born in 1931 in Grevena prefecture of northern Greece, the reposed hierarch was known as the “Saint of prisons” for his decades of work with and aid to inmates as well as in efforts to help released people reintegrate into society.

A health ministry spokesman in Athens, epidemiologist Sotiris Tsiodras, advised people in at-risk health groups to avoid venues or events where mass gatherings will take place, a precaution against the spread of the corona virus.   In a related development, the Palestinian Authority declared an unprecedented state of emergency in the West Bank on Thursday,…

The annual Greek Independence Day parade will take place on March 29 this year through the streets of Manhattan. According to reports, participation at the celebratory events will be greater than in previous years, in solidarity to residents of several eastern Aegean islands who continue to bear the brunt of a migrant/refugee crisis, as well…

Academy Award-winning star Tom Hanks and his wife, Hollywood producer Rita Wilson, recently unveiled a one-minute video calling on viewers to visit the “Greece 2021” webpage and submit proposals for events and actions to commemorate next year’s 200th anniversary of the beginning of the Greek War of Independence. Hanks and Wilson, who is of Greek…

The Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Irinej, on March 3, 2020, visited the under-reconstruction Cathedral of St. Sava in New York City. The Serbian Patriarch referred to “mixed feelings” while touring the cathedral, expressing his joy over the progress of rebuilding, but also sadness from the calamity that struck the Serbian Orthodox community in New…

Believers have always been exposed to diseases and epidemics throughout the ages. What does the Church do about it? The Church activates communion with God in the life of the faithful whenever a danger threatens the people, be it wars, diseases, calamities and the like, by holding prayers, vigils, and processions with the Holy Life-Giving…

Bishop Irenei of London and Western Europe addresses the faithful on Church Life and the Coronavirus. Read the full text below:   To the faithful and beloved children of this God-preserved Diocese! As we enter now fully into this lenten period leading to the bright Resurrection of Christ, we find ourselves also in a period…

Metropolitan Vladimir celebrated the Divine Liturgy in St. Theodore of Tyre Monastery (Ciuflea) in Chisinau on the Cheesefare Sunday. Concelebrating to the first hierarch were Bishop Anatolie of Cahul and Comrat, and Bishop Nicodim of Edinet and Briceni. The arch-pastors were assisted at the Liturgy by archpriest Vadim Cheibas, Secretary of the Metropolis of Moldova,…