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Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Costas Vlassis’ last stop, during his official visit to Egypt over the past few days, was the historic St. Catherine Monastery, officially known as the Sacred Monastery of God-Trodden Mount Sinai, in existence for 1,600 years in the Sinai desert. The visit comes at a particularly crucial period in the eastern…

  A pleasant surprise was in store for the organizers of this year’s Culinary Olympics and Intergastra, held last week in Stuttgart. Among the roughly 2,000 chefs in the competition was Fr. Epifanios Mylopotaminos, an Athonite monk, cook, culinary author and wine producer on the semi-autonomous monastic community of Mt. Athos. Fr. Epifanios, a member…

  NBA star Giannis Antetokounmpo took to his Instagram account shortly before the NBA all star game to post the following: “…God put us here and God makes no mistakes. A kid from Sepolia, Athens.” Antetokounmpo, the child of Nigerian immigrants to Greece, was born in Athens, baptized into the Orthodox faith and raised in…

  The Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, referred to a crisis of unbridled personal freedom, as he said, a result of man’s alienation from God, speaking on the occasion of the Sunday of the Prodigal Son. February 16 marked the second Sunday of a three-week period prior to the commencement of Great Lent….

  Renewed talks between the Orthodox Church in the small Adriatic country of Montenegro and the country’s government, regarding a controversial law that the Church says is a threat to its properties, standing and dignity, continued this week, but without a resolution being found. A law regarding religious institutions in the country was ratified last…

  The Elder Metropolitan of Piraeus, His Eminence Kallinikos, continues to be hospitalized in serious condition. The former metropolitan of Greece’s largest port city was elected to the throne of the Metropolis of Piraeus by the Church of Greece’s Holy Synod in January 1978, stepping down in February 2006 due to health reasons.

In 340 BC the Byzantines and their allies the Athenians were under siege by the troops of Philip II of Macedon, the father of Alexander the Great. On a particularly dark and wet night Philip attempted a surprise attack but was thwarted by the appearance of a bright light in the sky in the middle…

There was a man who had two sons. The younger one said to his father, “Father, give me my share of the estate.” So, the father divided his property between them. Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and, there, squandered his wealth in…