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The main Metropolitan Cathedral in the northern city of Thessaloniki was the target of vandals overnight, with up to 10 perpetrators throwing paint against the church’s exterior and tossing leaflets with political statements in the courtyard. According to police, two suspects, aged 24 and 22, were arrested, with subsequent reports pointing to another four suspects…

War-ravaged Syria continues to experience one of the worst humanitarian crises in the 21st century. According to figures supplied by the United Nations, more than 900K people have been displaced in the country just in the last three months, with the vast majority being women and children. The nine-year war in the Mideast country has…

The Russian Orthodox Church this week announced that 3,245 churches and chapels in Russia are considered as severely damaged or destroyed. A register of those churches was compiled by information supplied by the 110 Orthodox metropolises in the vast country. The head of the national cultural heritage register expressed her sadness over the thousands of…

The Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Divine Beatitude Theodoros II, continued his tour of sub-Saharan Africa this week. His Divine Beatitude arrived in the large southeast African nation of Mozambique on Tuesday, where he toured areas devastated by a cyclone last year. The Patriarch of Alexandria was accompanied by the Bishop…

The Church today venerates the memory of Philothei, the Righteous Martyr of Athens. St. Philothei was born in Ottoman-occupied Athens in 1522, to an illustrious and pious family. After becoming a widow at a very young age, Philothei took up monastic life and founded a convent, offering shelter to women enslaved and abused by the…

A complete guide on how to resist the devil, especially if you are under demonic attacks and there is a danger of demonization is outlined below. We must be always aware of this danger and must take the precautionary measures, especially if we have grave sins or we are targets of concentrated demonic attacks because…

  The Serbian Patriarch, His Holiness Irinej, on Monday received His Eminence, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, at the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade. Metropolitan Hilarion is also the chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations. Discussions touched on the overall situation in Orthodoxy today, as well as the very timely issue regarding what…

  The Metropolitan of France, His Eminence Emmanuel, arrived on the monastic community of Mount Athos in northern Greece over the weekend, and specifically at the Holy Monastery of Xenophontos. With the acquiescence of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His Eminence was welcomed by the Elder Archimandrite Alexios, the Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Xenophontos,…