All vice is caused by self-esteem and sensual pleasure; you cannot overcome passion without hating them. ‘Avarice is the root of all evil’ (1 Tim. 6:10); but avarice is clearly a product of these two components. The intellect is made blind by these three passions: avarice, self-esteem and sensual pleasure. Scripture calls these three the…

Its beehive of Activity as we prepare to open BISHOP KONG’AI GIRLS ORTHODOX HIGH SCHOOL next year 2020!! This was formerly St. Antony mixed Secondary school at the Diocese Center Ichamara. This was decided By the Executive of the Diocesan Governing Council that the school has to begin a fresh. We shall be admitting between…

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A Turkish presidency website, which debuted recently, aims to rewrite history by disputing the Armenian genocide. The effort is part of official Ankara’s long-standing attempt to “fight”, as it says, “propaganda and to restore the truth surrounding events of 1915.” The official Turkish webpage puts forth a revisionist claim that the Ottoman empire never persecuted…

The Orthodox Church in Montenegro continues to face what it calls threats by the government against its stature, dignity and even property. The Metropolis of Montenegro and the Littoral of the Serbian Orthodox Church has announced that on Dec. 21, after the Divine Liturgy, a protest rally will be organized in the city of Nikšić,…

The last session of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece’s permanent Holy Synod for 2019 began this week in Athens, opening on Monday and continuing on Tuesday. The session comes during the twilight of a year that was particularly noteworthy for Church-state relations in Greece, as well as for relations between Orthodox Churches around the…

His Beatitude Patriarch John X Receives the Greek ambassador to Lebanon on a Farewell Visit Balamand, December 9, 2019 Patriarch John X, Patriarch of Antioch and the all the East of the Greek Orthodox Church, received the Greek Ambassador to Lebanon Franciscos Verros on a farewell visit to mark the end of his duties, at…

A funeral service will be held early Wednesday afternoon in southern Arizona, local time, for the Elder Ephraim of Arizona, who reposed in the Lord on Sunday morning. Fr. Ephraim was a hieromonk for seven decades and the co-founder of the St. Anthony’s Monastery in Florence, Arizona, relocating to the Sonora Desert to start a…

Prayers before the miraculous icon of Axion Estin for the fires in Australia to cease. This blessed icon is one of, if not, the most sacred icon on Mount Athos. Our monasteries and church at Mangrove Mountain are at great threat and the Nativity Church in Port Adelaide has had a major fire, it is…