On March 2, on the first day of Lent, the seminar for priests and deacons of the Philippine-Vietnamese diocese took place in the parish of Matrona of Moscow in Davao city. The seminar began with a Lenten service, mostly translated into Cebuano language. Many parishioners experienced the Lenten services for the first time.   phvieparchy.org

With the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas, we are pleased to inform you that between the 5th and 17th of March our Archdiocese will host the Holy Relic of St. George from the Holy Monastery of Xenophontos (Mount Athos) for the spiritual renewal and sanctification of the faithful during Holy and Great Lent. Program…

In any society there are richer people and poorer people. People who find a job, people who can’t find a job for a variety of reasons. All of this God has left on earth in order to need each other and to learn to love one another and not to judge too much why. In…

BOSTON – Joe Biden, presidential candidate and former U.S. Vice President during the Barack Obama administration, phoned His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and expressed his warm wishes on his 80th birthday, which was on February 29. Biden has shown interest about the issues facing the Ecumenical Patriarchate regarding its smooth operation and fulfilment of its…

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Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, on Wednesday will travel to the Evros border prefecture in the country’s extreme northeast, in order to offer his support to the region’s residents and to security and military personnel serving there, amid an unprecedented decision by neighboring Turkey’s government to allow “free passage” to any…

An Iranian Christian convert who was arrested during an anti-government protest in Tehran last month has been released on bail from a notorious women’s prison. The 21-year-old Christian convert, Fatemeh Mohammadi, who prefers to go by the name “Mary” since her spiritual conversion, was released on a $2,250 bail days before her court hearing Monday, the U.S.-based…

The Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Irinej, arrived in Washington D.C. this week for an official visit to the United States.   

A funeral service for reposed Elder Metropolitan of Piraeus, Kallinikos, was held on Tuesday at the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, in the port city of Piraeus, officiated by the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos. The reposed Church hierarch will be interred at the Holy Synodical Monastery of Panaghia Chrysopigis, at…