Thousands of Orthodox faithful, abbots and priests continued peaceful protests around Montenegro against a recently ratified law that the Orthodox Church charges open the way for a confiscation of many of its properties and relics. In Podgorica, the country’s capital, the Bishop of Diokleia, His Grace Methodius, declared that protests will not stop until…

  The Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, this week visited a youth summer camp run by the Monastery of Pantanassa and the Greek Orthodox Christian Society of Sydney, two institutions under the auspices of the Archdiocese of Australia. His Eminence was enthusiastically welcomed by young campers at the facility waving Australian and Greek flags…

  More instances of vandalism of churches and chapels around Greece over the recent period have caused grief and revulsion. After vandals desecrated an icon of the Theotokos in a chapel in central Thessaloniki recently, the small church of St. Panteleimonas and a chapel outside the Cathedral of St. Sophia were vandalized recently. On the…

In every beginner, there is a twofold work, committed in the heart in a double but unmixed way: one work is of grace and the other work is of the deception of demons. Yet still, we can divide the twofold work into three, if we also consider the body—thus, there is a triple warmth of…

NEW YORK – His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America celebrated, the evening of Wednesday Jan. 9, 2020, the beginning of the new year with the leadership and members of the leading Greek-American professional organizations. The Archbishop cut the traditional New Year’s Vassilopita and exchanged greetings with all in attendance. The Organizations included the following: Hellenic…

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The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Monday received the current caretaker Prime Minister of the Republic of North Macedonia, Oliver Spasovski, with talks directly touching on the ecclesiastical issue in the land-locked former Yugoslav republic in the southern Balkans. Spasovski was accompanied by his predecessor, Zoran Zaev. Afterwards, it was…

  The Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Divine Beatitude Theodoros II, offers his thoughts on peace, the continued persecution of Christians in the Middle East, efforts to fight poverty as well as the contentious issue of autocephaly for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, in an exclusive interview with the Orthodoxia news agency. The interview…

  The annual Great Blessing of the Waters service again took place in Sydney, Australia this month, with the Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, officiating at the coastal Yarra Bay site, on the occasion of the Epiphany. The ceremony marked the 28th consecutive Great Blessing of the Waters in Sydney, with congregants from all…