While praying to Christ, I felt a certain difficulty. The Mother of God – She was just like my own Mother to me. The same was with St. Euphemia. “My dear Saint Euphemia”, I addressed to her… But it was difficult to pray to Christ. I venerated His icons with fear. When during the Jesus…

The European Parliament in Brussels hosted, on Tuesday, 28 Jan 2020, a dialogue seminar on the European Grean Deal (EGD) – the flagship environmental policy programme of the current European Commission, which, if fully implemented, will hugely impact on the EU’s approach to environmental issues, over the next few decades. Representatives of churches and other…

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  Greece’s president of the republic, Prokopis Pavlopoulos, underlined on Sunday from the southern Peloponnese city of Kalamata that “…Orthodoxy’s universality is expressed exclusively by the Ecumenical Patriarch.” Pavlopoulos spoke during his attendance at the celebration of the Feast Day of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple by the Panaghia, the Virgin Mary, for…

  The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, on Sunday blessed the New Year’s cake-cutting event of the Society of Graduates of the “Helleniki Pedia” Schools. Helleniki Pedia means Greek education. His Beatitude fondly remembered his days as an educator and referred to the difficult task that teachers have. He also lamented…

  The Orthodox Metropolitan of Germany, His Eminence Augustinos, called for an intervention by German Foreign Minister Haiko Maas to resolve a simmering crisis in the small Adriatic country of Montenegro. In a letter, His Eminence described the dire situation that has emerged for Orthodox Christians in that country, after the Montenegro government drafted and…

  Monday marks the one-year anniversary of the enthronement of the Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine, His Beatitude Epiphanius, as the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. His Beatitude was enthroned after the Orthodox Church of the Ukraine was granted the Tomos of Autocephaly by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. On the occasion of…

  A celebratory Divine Liturgy was held over the weekend at the crypt of Saint-Victor, in a cathedral at the same-name abbey in the French port city Marseille. St. Victor of Marseilles, a Roman army officer who was martyred for converting to Christianity in the late second century, is the patron saint of the historic…

  A soul-soothing lecture by the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, has been posted today on the pages of the Orthodoxia news agency. The lecture, in Greek, is part of the “Lessons of Athos” series, aired by the Piraeus Church’s radio station. The Elder Archimandrite’s lecture focuses…