The Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Divine Beatitude Theodoros II, on Thursday received the chief of the Hellenic Navy general staff, Vice-Adm. Nikolaos Tsounis, at the Patriarchal diocese in Cairo. Vice-Adm. Tsounis is in Mideast country for talks with his naval counterparts, as well as to tour a new military base near the…

The head of the “Greece 2021” organization, Gianna Angelopoulos, arrived on the East Coast this week for meetings and contacts with representatives of Greek-American communities and the Diaspora. The organization aims to prepare events and commemorations in 2021, on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the beginning of the Greek War of Independence. In…

Τhe north-central Greek city of Veria on Friday honored its patron saint, with a celebratory Divine Liturgy taking place at the St. Anthony Cathedral, officiated by Metropolitan of Kissamos and Selinos, His Eminence Amphilochios. Co-officiating were the Metropolitan of Veria, His Eminence Panteleimon, the Metropolitan of Arta, His Eminence Kallinikos, the Bishop of Amorion, His…

The year that passed, 2019, marks one of the worst in recent memory for Christians around the world, with persecution taking on genocidal dimensions, according to a report by the organization “Open Doors”. The US-based group reports that roughly 260 million people worldwide faced persecution for their Christian faith, a number that is up by…

The Church today venerates the memory of St. Anthony the Great, the father of monks, who was born in Lower Egypt in 251 to pious parents — and who devoted himself to aesthetic monasticism from a very young age, upon hearing the Gospel verse: “If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell what thou hast,…

The Municipal Development Fund of Georgia has completed the landscaping works of cultural heritage and tourist zone in Motsameta Monastery of Tkibuli Municipality. The project that backed by the World Bank and its cost averages GEL 1.4 million, envisaged reinforcement of enclosure walls, as well as construction-rehabilitation of visitor’s center, parking lot, communication system and…

The City Council of New York approved the renaming of a number of streets and public places at its meeting on December 19. Among the honorees is Archpriest Paul Schneirla (+ 2014), who served as the parish priest of St. Mary’s Antiochian Orthodox Church in Brooklyn for over 50 years, reports Brooklyn Reporter. “Whether they are…

On 16 January 2020, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), met with H.E. Johannes Aigner, Ambassador of the Republic of Austria to the Russian Federation. They were joined at the meeting, which took place at the DECR premises, by Archpriest Sergy Zvonarev, secretary for far abroad…

The project for renovation of Saint Nedelya Square downtown Sofia of Italian Architect Massimiliano Fuksas is unsuitable for the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, priest Kiril Popov who serves at the Saint Nedelya church said at a discussion at the Union of Architects in Bulgaria. The project interrupts church life in our temple which turns into a church-museum…