The state has made difficult decisions in order to allow no exceptions to the gathering of people and the transmission of the coronavirus, Civil Protection Deputy Minister for Crisis Management Nikos Hardalias said during a daily briefing on Thursday.In this context, Hardalias said, speaking after the Health Ministry’s spokesman on novel coronavirus Sotiris Tsiodras, the…

President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou on Friday spoke on the phone with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, who she thanked for his good wishes upon her assumption of office, while she also expressed her support for the ordeal facing both ethnic Greeks and the Church due to the coronavirus pandemic. On his part, the Ecumenical…

In response to the immediate global crisis resulting from the current pandemic and, in particular, to the dramatic effects it is having on all people, specifically upon those who have lost their jobs and their salaries, as our resident international students, the Holy Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, in collaboration with various Community Organisations and…

During this troubling time of the coronavirus pandemic, the Serbian Church has continued and expanded upon its usual humanitarian endeavors. The Serbian Orthodox Metropolis of Montenegro has donated valuable medical equipment to various hospitals throughout the country to help fight the coronavirus pandemic. In particular, funds were donated for the purchase of seven monitors and…

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Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol A letter drafted by Dr. Lakis Palazis (MD, EDIC, M.P. Adm.) and addressed to the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Mr. Nikos Anastasiadis, calls upon him to intervene to halt the unjust attack against Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol by a portion of the press. The public is invited to sign…

Massachusetts philanthropists John and Effie Lagadinos have donated 5,000 dollars to each and every Greek Orthodox parish in the New England area, a donation amounting to a total of $300,000 in order to help them get by during the coronavirus pandemic, which closed the doors of their naves. According to the National Herald expatriate newspaper,…

The Romanian Patriarchate has also issued an encyclical on the holding of services during Easter Holy Week, reminding that worshipers cannot be present in cathedrals and chapels. Additionally, the Church said the sacrament of confession can be conducted only within a private residence, and with the attending cleric taking all prescribed sanitary precautions. Similarly, the…

The Russian Orthodox Church’s Department for Church Charity and Social Ministry this week issued a plea for food donations to deal with what it says is a sharp increase in the number of homeless in the vast country, a development that comes amid the pandemic. The Russian Church has already organized 90 homeless shelters, along…