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The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Sunday received youth campers being hosted at an Orthodox Church summer camp on the Marmara Sea islet of Proti. The Patriarch received the children and teens in the throne room of the Patriarchate’s Fanar-district seat. The youth, members of Romania’s ethnic Greek communities, were…

The centennial anniversary of the institutional foundation of the Greek Orthodox community of Bethlehem was celebrated over the weekend, with the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Most Godly Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III, presiding at a celebratory Divine Liturgy at the Church of Nativity on Sunday, Aug. 11.

A small early Byzantine church, constructed from rock blocks and brick layers, and with a floor lined with ceramic tiles, was discovered by archaeologists near the town of Gabrovo, in central Bulgaria. The Church was dated to the 6th century, based on coins found during the excavation.

The Georgian Orthodox Church this week announced that it has not received any briefing related to restoration works of the floor at the main cathedral at the Kintsvisi Monastery, in the eastern part of the country – an initiative reportedly commenced by local hierarchs. The announcement to local media was made by the Patriarchate’s head…

Another tourism-related video produced by Turkish tourism officials insists on transforming anything related to millennia-long Hellenic civilization and Greek culture into a “… Turkish Treasure”, as the promotional video claims. Shown on the Internet, the video invites visitors and holiday-makers to admire the Haghia Sofia’s intricate mosaics, while another references the Alexander Sarcophagus, the iconic…

Less than two months remain before the historic re-dedication of the Greek Orthodox Cathedral of Sts. Constantine and Helen in Cairo, Egypt. A first Divine Liturgy at the under-renovation Cathedral is set for Thursday, the Feast Day of the Dormition of the Theotokos. The major renovation comes from a major donation by philanthropist Ekaterini Sofianou-Belafanti,…

The Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, this week spoke on the issue of bioethics, on the occasion of his recent tour of ethnic Greek communities, Churches and Foundations in Melbourne – the city in which he received a master’s degree in the field. In statements to the Greek expatriate newspaper Neos Kosmos, he said…

Looking at a map, the tiny rock outcrop of St. Emilian – Aghios Emilianos, in Greek – lies just off a promontory on the northwest coast of small, picturesque Symi isle, itself in the far eastern Aegean. Symi lies due north of large and well-known Rhodes, and only a few kilometers from two slender peninsulas…