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02.04.2020 | 16:43
Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia: Church’s doors cannot close, but must remain open to all those in need
The Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II, this week emphasized that the Church’s doors cannot close, but must remain open to all those in need. At the same time, His Holiness and Beatitude said it was imperative for all restrictions and health precautions to be strictly followed, in commenting on the…
02.04.2020 | 16:36
Archdiocese of Great Britain by the side of Greek college students stranded in UK
The Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain continued its outreach program, providing both material assistance and psychological support to those in need. The Archdiocese is particularly active in supporting Greek college students in the UK who failed to return home due to the coronavirus outbreak and the difficulty in securing transportation. His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas…
02.04.2020 | 16:29
Greek shipping minister speaks to Orthodoxia News Agency
Greek shipping and island policy minister, Yannis Plakiotakis, on Thursday spoke to the Orthodoxia News Agency via Skype. Among others, the Greek minister referred to measures by the state to shore up the coastal shipping sector amid the ongoing crisis, as well as stepped up patrols in the eastern Aegean by the Hellenic coast guard…
02.04.2020 | 16:10
Archdiocese of Athens to maintain outreach program to those in need, at-risk groups
The Archdiocese of Athens has announced that all of its charitable institutions and social structures will continue to cooperate with state and municipal entities in order to maintain the delivery of meals to at risk households and individuals. Other Metropolises under the jurisdiction of the Autocephalous Church of Greece are urged to follow suit. In…
02.04.2020 | 15:58
Metropolitan Myron of New Zealand: ‘This is a time for us to put a greater weight, a more focused significance, on our personal prayer life, on our personal communication with God!’
Metropolitan Myron of New Zealand has issued his latest announcement regarding the Sacred Services during the coronavirus (Covid-19) crisis. Read the full text below: ANNOUNCEMENT Wellington 1st of April 2020 To the Clergy, the Monastic Brotherhoods and Sisterhoods and the reverent plentitude of the Holy Metropolis of New Zealand (Fiji, Tonga, Samoa) Beloved siblings and children…
02.04.2020 | 10:47
The Akathist Hymn: ode to the Invincible General
Apart from its usual dedication to the Menaion (the commemoration of the lives of the Saints) and the early custom to celebrate Kontakia (a type of hymn) during the Pannychis (festive night vigil celebrated at the Blachernae chapel), the Akathist had also the function to celebrate military victories or to ask, during wars, for divine…
02.04.2020 | 9:40
Church of Greece Holy Synod says cathedrals to remain closed to worshipers during Great and Holy Easter
The Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece on Wednesday, after a marathon session, announced that services for Holy and Great Easter Week, known as “Passion Week”, and Divine Liturgies will be conducted in closed, to worshipers, cathedrals and chapels around the eastern Mediterranean country, the result of strict precautions to prevent exposure…
01.04.2020 | 20:55
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01.04.2020 | 18:37
Athens proposal to UNESCO to include two religious celebrations in NW Greece as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
Greece’s culture ministry this week submitted a case file to UNESCO requesting that the annual religious celebrations on the Aug. 15 Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos, the Mother of God, in the villages of Vlasti and Syrrako, both in mountainous northwest Greece, be included in the world’s Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
