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On the semi-autonomous monastic community of Mount Athos, Athonite Monasteries held litanies and vigils in supplication to the Virgin Mary for an end to the pandemic and for Her consolation to a sorely tested humanity. The Sunday of the Veneration of the Holy Cross was commemorated today with millennia-old Athonite tradition at the Holy and…

  The pages of the Orthodoxia news agency today host a video feature on the Holy Monastery of the Theotokos of Tartani, in the mountainous central Greece prefecture of Evritania. The monastery was rebuilt after being destroyed in a 1963 rock slide.

As the coming weeks will be crucial for reducing exposure to the coronavirus, we ask you to follow the directions of state officials and public healthcare authorities. With the help of God, and with prayer, this crisis will soon end. Also, please do not forget the people who live by themselves and may need assistance,…

  The Metropolitan Bishop of Montenegro and the Littoral, His Eminence Amphilochios, on Sunday emphasized that “… in agreeable times it is easy to be good, heroes though are born through trial”. His Eminence spoke after the Sunday of the Veneration of the Holy Cross service, referring to the coronavirus outbreak and the difficult times…

  he Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Most Godly Beatitude Theophilos III, prayed in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher for an end to the pandemic, following a litany during the Sunday of the Veneration of the Holy Cross. 

  Global efforts to reduce people’s exposure to the coronavirus continue on an intensive pace continued to dominate all of the world’s attention at the start of the week. The Greek government, for instance, on Sunday evening announced a series of new restrictive measures to stop the non-essential movement of people around the east Mediterranean…

The Church today venerates the Holy Righteous Martyr Nicon and His 199 Disciples. St. Nicon was born in Naples. At first he was a soldier, he later went to the East, where he was baptized and in time became a bishop. After several years, he arrived in Sicily, where he and many of his disciples…

While pious priests in Georgia, Ukraine, and elsewhere have begun blessing their churches and surrounding streets in processions throughout their cities, His Eminence Metropolitan Pavel of Minsk and Zaslavl took to the skies this weekend to bless the capital of Belarus. Yesterday, March 22, His Eminence served a moleben in times of devastating plague and…