Dear Albanian citizens! Dear Orthodox believers! I wish a happy and a white Easter to all! Happy Easter for many years and wish good health, kindness and prosperity in every family! This year, an invisible enemy, who is conditioning our daily thoughts and behaviors, forces us not to celebrate this Great and Holy Feast as…

Behold, today is the day of the Resurrection: Let us glory in the feast, let us embrace one another in joy… let us forgive everything on Resurrection Day and let us all sing together: Christ is Risen! Resurrection Day! It is the happiest day for all Orthodox believers, and the greatest celebration of our Orthodox faith…

Earth Day 2020 Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew This year marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, whose mission is to work with civil and faith communities for developing local solutions to global problems, including climate change, plastic pollution, and threats to biodiversity. Earth Day promotes programs ranging from low-impact actions to “a billion acts of green”…

Let’s talk live with OCCI and Fr. Chris Metropulos We are pleased to announce our next myOCN Community Online Gathering this coming Thursday, April 23, at 4:00 pm EST with special guests Dr. Christofidis and Dr. Anderson from the Orthodox Christian Counseling Institute (OCCI). OCCI is a professional network of Orthodox psychologists, counselors, and marriage…

A video posted on the Orthodoxia News Agency shows touching scenes from past Easter services at the Holy Monastery of St. Anthony in the Sonora Desert in Arizona, including images of the reposed Elder Ephraim of Arizona. The reposed Elder is shown with his spiritual offspring officiating at the Holy Saturday service of the Resurrection…

According to the Open Doors World Watch Research unit, data indicates a direct correlation between countries in sub-Saharan Africa that are most vulnerable to the coronavirus and the countries where Christians face the most pressure for following their faith. Specifically, four of the five most virus-vulnerable countries—the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Sudan and…

The Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain expressed its appreciation to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson for his best wishes, on the occasion of the celebration of Holy and Great Easter by the Orthodox faithful in the United Kingdom. The Archdiocese also conveyed its hope to Johnson for a speedy recovery from his coronavirus infection….

The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Canada issued a statement regarding a mass shooting in Nova Scotia over the weekend. The statement read, “…His Eminence Archbishop Sotirios, together with the entire plenitude of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Canada, mourns the tragic and senseless loss of life that took place in Nova Scotia …The Archdiocese grieves…

The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople’s newly enthroned Metropolitan of Imvros and Tenedos, His Eminence Kirillos, referred to a lonesome Easter experienced this year by the remaining Greek Orthodox faithful on the two islands in the northeast Aegean, as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. The measures imposed in Turkey, which formally possessed the two isles…