Border security was at the highest level on Greece’s land borders with Turkey on Tuesday, especially at the Kastanies border port, where thousands of third country nationals from dozens of countries gathered in an attempt to breach Greece’s borders in order to reach preferred destinations in central and western Europe. The negative development comes days…

Regional TOTs (Trainer of Trainers) from the different Uganda Orthodox Church Mother’s Union (UOCMU) communities were engaged in practical training on the construction of food storage facilities held for 3 days at St. Catherine Orthodox community at Vumba in Luweero district from 11 to 14, February 2020. This training was basically trigged towards equipping the…

His Holiness Patriarch Irinej of Serbia is currently in the midst of an 8-day visit to America. His itinerary includes presiding over the Church Assembly of the Serbian Orthodox Church in North and South America and a number of parish visits. Patriarch Irinej was formally welcome on Thursday, February 27 at the Tampa airport by…

Images are emerging of a Greek Orthodox church in Lesvos which was vandalised by refugees. On Monday, more than 500 refugees grouped together to head down to the port of Mytilini from Moria camp. The group were confronted by members of MAT (Tactical Police) along the way, and resorted to stoning the Greek authorities in…

The Youth Assemble conference 2020 brought together hundreds of Greek Orthodox youth, aged in their late teens, twenties and thirties. The Greek youth came together at St Euphemia College Bankstown, Sydney, to discuss their Greek Orthodox faith and culture under the guidance of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios. The theme of this years Youth Assemble conference…

The mind (νους) is the finest attention, the human focus, the eye of the soul. If someone is focused on God and His rays – that is on God’s uncreated energy called grace, then the human mind has the property to receive light, to be enlightened like a pure parabolic mirror on which these rays…

Greater than baptism itself is the fountain of tears after baptism, even though it is somewhat audacious to say so. For baptism is the washing away of evils that were in us before, but sins committed after baptism are washed away by tears. As baptism is received in infancy, we have all defiled it, but…

His Eminence Metropolitan Gerasimos of San Francisco has issued his message regarding Lent 2020. Read the full text below:   Beloved Brothers and Sisters in the Lord, We begin our Lenten journey in troubling times. Forces of polarization and division seem to lurk everywhere, but especially in our civic life. At times, these same forces…

A seminar for college students learning foreign languages in Georgia, including Greek, was held in Tbilisi’s theological academy last week. The goal of the seminar was to cultivate an experiential relationship with the foreign language they are studying. On her part, Greek language teacher Yuli Sosiashvili noted that classical languages, such as Greek and Latin,…