people who don’t give their shrines, who save their honour and souls, have become the true people of God based on the testament of St. Peter of Cetinje, on his laws“, said Metropolitan Amfilohije. On Sunday,26th February 2020, a prayer of supplication to The Most Holy Theotokos was held in the Orthodox Cathedral of…

  His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Irinej received His Eminence Metropolitan Ilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, at the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade on February 17, 2020. The reception was attended by members of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church: Their Graces Bishops Irinej (Bulovic)…

His Eminence Metropolitan Ilarion (Alfeyev) of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, arrived in Belgrade on February 17, 2020. A distinguished guest from the sister Russian Orthodox Church was greeted at the Belgrade Airport “Nikola Tesla” by members of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church: Their…

His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, on the feast of Great Martyr Theodore the Tyro, celebrates his name day. His Beatitude (born Nicholas Horeftakis), was born in Crete in 25 November 1954, where he completed his schooling. He is a graduate of the Rizarios Ecclesiastical School of Athens and…

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Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Costas Vlassis’ last stop, during his official visit to Egypt over the past few days, was the historic St. Catherine Monastery, officially known as the Sacred Monastery of God-Trodden Mount Sinai, in existence for 1,600 years in the Sinai desert. The visit comes at a particularly crucial period in the eastern…

  A pleasant surprise was in store for the organizers of this year’s Culinary Olympics and Intergastra, held last week in Stuttgart. Among the roughly 2,000 chefs in the competition was Fr. Epifanios Mylopotaminos, an Athonite monk, cook, culinary author and wine producer on the semi-autonomous monastic community of Mt. Athos. Fr. Epifanios, a member…

  NBA star Giannis Antetokounmpo took to his Instagram account shortly before the NBA all star game to post the following: “…God put us here and God makes no mistakes. A kid from Sepolia, Athens.” Antetokounmpo, the child of Nigerian immigrants to Greece, was born in Athens, baptized into the Orthodox faith and raised in…

  The Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, referred to a crisis of unbridled personal freedom, as he said, a result of man’s alienation from God, speaking on the occasion of the Sunday of the Prodigal Son. February 16 marked the second Sunday of a three-week period prior to the commencement of Great Lent….