The annual Greek Independence Day parade will take place on March 29 this year through the streets of Manhattan. According to reports, participation at the celebratory events will be greater than in previous years, in solidarity to residents of several eastern Aegean islands who continue to bear the brunt of a migrant/refugee crisis, as well…

Academy Award-winning star Tom Hanks and his wife, Hollywood producer Rita Wilson, recently unveiled a one-minute video calling on viewers to visit the “Greece 2021” webpage and submit proposals for events and actions to commemorate next year’s 200th anniversary of the beginning of the Greek War of Independence. Hanks and Wilson, who is of Greek…

The Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Irinej, on March 3, 2020, visited the under-reconstruction Cathedral of St. Sava in New York City. The Serbian Patriarch referred to “mixed feelings” while touring the cathedral, expressing his joy over the progress of rebuilding, but also sadness from the calamity that struck the Serbian Orthodox community in New…

Believers have always been exposed to diseases and epidemics throughout the ages. What does the Church do about it? The Church activates communion with God in the life of the faithful whenever a danger threatens the people, be it wars, diseases, calamities and the like, by holding prayers, vigils, and processions with the Holy Life-Giving…

Bishop Irenei of London and Western Europe addresses the faithful on Church Life and the Coronavirus. Read the full text below:   To the faithful and beloved children of this God-preserved Diocese! As we enter now fully into this lenten period leading to the bright Resurrection of Christ, we find ourselves also in a period…

Metropolitan Vladimir celebrated the Divine Liturgy in St. Theodore of Tyre Monastery (Ciuflea) in Chisinau on the Cheesefare Sunday. Concelebrating to the first hierarch were Bishop Anatolie of Cahul and Comrat, and Bishop Nicodim of Edinet and Briceni. The arch-pastors were assisted at the Liturgy by archpriest Vadim Cheibas, Secretary of the Metropolis of Moldova,…

The Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the United States of America has released its Encyclical for the Sunday of Orthodoxy. Read the full text below:   Sunday of Orthodoxy 2020 “Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of Man” (John 1:51)…

During their February 27th meeting, the Executive Committee of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops USA (ACOB) appointed Metropolitan Tikhon as Chair of the Committee for Monastic Communities and Archbishop Benjamin as Chair of the Committee for Liturgy. The Committee for Monastic Communities is tasked with archiving and cataloging, as well as studying and comparing…

At the instruction of the chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the representative of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia to the Patriarch of Great Antioch and All the East, Hegumen Arseny (Sokolov) visited the Syrian representation of the International Committee of the Red Cross based…