The Orthodox Academy of Crete was awarded a special distinction by the Athens-based Athanassios Botsis Journalism Promotion Foundation, during a ceremony on Wednesday evening. The foundation honored the Academy for its half-century of work in the defense of universal human rights and its cultural activities. The Botsis Foundation’s 36th annual awards ceremony was held in…

The latest tourism promotional campaign by Turkey prominently features, among others, medieval Greek Orthodox churches, exquisite Christian icons and iconic Byzantine and Greco-Roman monuments, in various types of advertising. The campaign is part of an comprehensive and costly campaign to reverse negative international press over the recent period focusing on the predominately Muslim country, especially…

The Saturday after the Nativity, January 11th, 2019, was especially bright this year at the Parish of St. John the Wonderworker in Eugene. After days of rain and dark skies, the heavens opened and sun shone forth, if only so briefly, to welcome His Grace Bishop Maxim. The radiance of the parish’s Christmas celebration was…

The Synodal edition of the Holy Bible and the writings and translations of Fr. Dumitru Stăniloae are among the most wanted books published by the Publishing Houses of the Romanian Patriarchate in the past years. The Sales Department of the Publishing Houses of the Romanian Patriarchate was contacted by the Basilica News Agency and presented…

On Jan. 14, 2019, His Grace Bishop Silvester warmly received the RDC Omoro District Madam Suzan Akany who paid him a visit at the Diocese head Office in Gulu. The RDC was escorted by the DISO Omoro District Mr.David Aisu and other officials from the Civil service. They discussed and shared different ways of working…

Elder Ephraim of Philotheou and Arizona peacefully reposed in the Lord at about 10:00 PM on December 7 at St. Anthony’s Monastery in Florence, Arizona. The beloved Athonite elder founded St. Anthony’s in addition to another 16 monasteries in America and Canada after leaving the Holy Mountain, where he had labored for many years as the spiritual…

The Arapovo Monastery of Saint Nedelya located southeast of the town of Asenovgrad is the only Bulgarian monastery built during the Ottoman rule. In the period of Bulgaria’s National Revival, it played an important role in the spiritual and cultural awakening of the Bulgarian nation. The monastery came to life in 1856 when a monastic…

Generally speaking, by “apocalypse” (ἀποκάλυψις) the people understand “revelation” or, more literally, “uncovering”. The term is tied, mainly, with Saint John Theologian’s work – Book of Revelation – from the New Testament which describes using pseudonymity and symbolic imagery for the expectation of an imminent cosmic cataclysm in which God destroys the ruling powers of…

It was on the Sunday after Theophany… …that the faithful of our blessed Archdiocese gathered in celebration for the ordination of Reverend Father Phillip Saba to the Priesthood, by the hand of His Eminence, Metropolitan Basilios. A capacity St. Nicholas parish gathered together, under the patronage of His Eminence, in prayer for this blessed occasion….