The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, on Tuesday received the mayor of the northwest Peloponnese town of Kalavryta, Athanasios Papadopoulos. The town’s mayor briefed the Archbishop over the events planned by the municipality for 2021, on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the beginning of the Greek War of…

An explosive situation erupted on the eastern Aegean islands of Lesvos and Hios early Tuesday morning, with local residents engaged in pitched battles against riot police attempting to escort heavy machinery and work crews to sites where new closed migrant/refugee shelters are to be erected. Both large islands have borne the brunt of the migrant…

  A “fraternal meeting” of Orthodox Churches will commence on Wednesday in Amman, Jordan, although a majority of the world’s Orthodox Primates, most notably the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, will not attend. Following an invitation by the Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Most Godly Beatitude Theophilos III, who is the meeting’s host, only the Patriarch of…

Serbian Patriarch Irinej and a delegation of the Serbian Orthodox Church were welcomed at Queen Alia Airport near Amman, the capital of Jordan, on February 25, 2020. His Holiness Patriarch Irinej and a delegation of the Serbian Orthodox Church were welcomed on behalf of the host, His Beatitude Patriarch Teophilos III of Jerusalem and All…

On the morning of Saturday, February 22, 2020, a formal meeting was held at the Presidential Palace of the Republic of Zambia between the Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa Theodoros II and His Excellency the President of the Republic of Zambia Dr. Edgar Chagwa Lungu, who discussed, inter alia, issues of religious tolerance, the…

A true tragedy occurred over the weekend as a uniquely beautiful wooden church in the Kaluga Province of Russia, near the famous Optina Pustyn Monastery, burned to the ground. The tragedy at the Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God in the village of Podborki occurred in the morning of Sunday, February 23,…

According to a recent statement from the Metropolitan of Moldova and Bukovina of the Romanian Orthodox Church, there are plans to build a memorial to one of the greatest Orthodox elders of the 20th century in his hometown. On Sunday, February 16, His Eminence Metropolitan Teofan continued a series of visits he has been undertaking…

The Orthodox faithful of the Philippines experienced a unique joy over the weekend, as His Eminence Metropolitan Paul of Manila and Hanoi consecrated the first parish of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Philippines. The Metropolitan celebrated the great rite of consecration of the Church of St. Seraphim of Sarov in the city of Makalangote…

The unexpected calamity that has emerged in China with the deadly Coronavirus epidemic, it has also struck our homeland in recent days. Apart from the special prayer, which we have already started offering in our everyday Church Services, and by which we ask the Lord for the victims of the Coronavirus, for their loved ones,…