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Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Costas Vlassis begins an official visit today to Egypt on Thursday. Vlassis, who holds the expatriate Greeks’ portfolio, was received by the Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Divine Beatitude Theodoros II, at the Patriarchal Vicarage of Cairo, before touring the Holy Monastery of St. George in Cairo’s…

The Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, this week received the Bishop of Diokleia, His Grace Metodije at the Archdiocese’s headquarters in New York City, with talks touching on the current religious and tense political situation in Montenegro. The Bishop expressed his deep gratitude for the support provided by His All-Holiness, the Ecumenical Patriarch of…

The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, on Thursday received board members of the Economic Chamber. The chamber is a long-standing supporter of the Church of Greece’s General Philoptohos, or charity, Fund. The Church and the Chamber have agreed to renew cooperation, with the signing of a memorandum of cooperation.   Photos:…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, visited the Holy Metropolis of Vryoula this week, in coastal western Asia Minor, where he blessed the Vicarage and the Metropolis’ chapel. While there, the Ecumenical Patriarch venerated the miracle-working Holy Icon of the Panaghia Vourliotissa and the refectory, expressing a wish to return soon…

Greek parliamentarians participating in the Inter-parliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy on Thursday were received by the President of the Republic, Prokopis Pavlopoulos. The parliamentarians briefed and thanked him for his support of the work conducted by the assembly. In exiting the presidential mansion in Athens afterwards, Greek deputy Maximos Harakopoulos praised the outgoing president of the…

Consecutive and controversial judicial rulings over the recent period have chipped away at the concepts “national” and “religious” consciousness in Greece, a predominately Orthodox nation of 11 million residents. The latest verdict, by the Council of State, Greece’s highest administrative court, upholds the constitutionality of removing the concept of “development of religious consciousness” from the…

On 10 February 2020, Archpriest Nikolay Balashov, vice-chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR), met with Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan’s chargé d’affaires ad interim, Mr. Amjad Al-Momani. Participating in the meeting were also Mr. Rateb Allaham, staff member of the embassy, and Mr. Yu. A. Tsyganok, DECR staff member. They discussed…

While Orthodox Christians everywhere love the Mother of God and turn to her in prayer in times of need, one Romania town is taking this relationship to a new level. Negrești Oaș is located in northwestern Romania, near the Ukrainian border. It is the capital of the Oaș Country ethnographic region, and as of Sunday,…