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Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, on Wednesday will travel to the Evros border prefecture in the country’s extreme northeast, in order to offer his support to the region’s residents and to security and military personnel serving there, amid an unprecedented decision by neighboring Turkey’s government to allow “free passage” to any…

An Iranian Christian convert who was arrested during an anti-government protest in Tehran last month has been released on bail from a notorious women’s prison. The 21-year-old Christian convert, Fatemeh Mohammadi, who prefers to go by the name “Mary” since her spiritual conversion, was released on a $2,250 bail days before her court hearing Monday, the U.S.-based…

The Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Irinej, arrived in Washington D.C. this week for an official visit to the United States.   

A funeral service for reposed Elder Metropolitan of Piraeus, Kallinikos, was held on Tuesday at the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, in the port city of Piraeus, officiated by the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos. The reposed Church hierarch will be interred at the Holy Synodical Monastery of Panaghia Chrysopigis, at…

Border security was at the highest level on Greece’s land borders with Turkey on Tuesday, especially at the Kastanies border port, where thousands of third country nationals from dozens of countries gathered in an attempt to breach Greece’s borders in order to reach preferred destinations in central and western Europe. The negative development comes days…

Regional TOTs (Trainer of Trainers) from the different Uganda Orthodox Church Mother’s Union (UOCMU) communities were engaged in practical training on the construction of food storage facilities held for 3 days at St. Catherine Orthodox community at Vumba in Luweero district from 11 to 14, February 2020. This training was basically trigged towards equipping the…

His Holiness Patriarch Irinej of Serbia is currently in the midst of an 8-day visit to America. His itinerary includes presiding over the Church Assembly of the Serbian Orthodox Church in North and South America and a number of parish visits. Patriarch Irinej was formally welcome on Thursday, February 27 at the Tampa airport by…

Images are emerging of a Greek Orthodox church in Lesvos which was vandalised by refugees. On Monday, more than 500 refugees grouped together to head down to the port of Mytilini from Moria camp. The group were confronted by members of MAT (Tactical Police) along the way, and resorted to stoning the Greek authorities in…