Today 1.12.2019 is WORLD AIDS Day and the Uganda Orthodox Church carried out national-wide prayers at all Orthodox Centers in Uganda in commemoration of the Victims of the AIDS scourge with the main prayers at St. Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral Namungoona presided over by Archmandriate Constantinos Mbonabingi alongside other clergies, Fr. Ksaule Stelios, Fr. Anastasios Isabirye…

NEW YORK – The Hellenic American Networking Group (HANG) holds its Christmas gathering on December 2, 6 PM at Limani, 1043 Northern Boulevard in Roslyn. Suggested $20 donations will be accepted at the door for the children of St. Basil Academy. The Saint Basil Academy is a national not-for-profit philanthropic center of the Greek Orthodox…

The love of husband and wife is the force that welds society together. Men will take up arms and even sacrifice their lives for the sake of this love. St. Paul would not speak so earnestly about this subject without serious reason; why else would he say, “Wives, be subject to your husbands, as to…

‘We live in a difficult time when a person chooses paradise or hell by himself/herself,’ the Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, Ilia II, said in his Sunday sermon at Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi. Ilia II spoke about the difficult life of a person and said that life is a test, a burden of the cross….

The Uganda Orthodox Medical Bureau with generous support from XM Group from Cyprus has been conducting a free periodical immunization program against Hepatitis B and Cervical cancer in women of the reproductive ages. The program was first carried out between 26th and 30th October 2019 with the first shots then a repeat of the same…

The cell of Saint Eustathios from Mylopotamos is the largest Athonite dependency of the Great Lavra Monastery in Mount Athos. The settlement is founded by Saint Athanasios the Athonite and is known throughout the Orthodox world for its vineyards and for the production of liturgical wine. The chapel bearing the patron saint of Saint Eustathios…

On 27 November 2019, Metropolitan Hilarion’s book ‘Catechism. A Short Guide to the Orthodox Faith’ in the Hungarian language was presented at the Russian Cultural Centre in Budapest, Hungary. Mr. Zsolt Semjén, Deputy Prime Minister of Hungary, was among those attending the presentation, along with Metropolitan Anthony of Korsun and Western Europe, head of the…

On Thursday, November 28, 2019, Thanksgiving Day in America, His Grace Bishop Nicholas of Manhattan, Deputy Secretary of the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, brought the Kursk-Root Icon of the Mother of God “of the Sign” to St John the Baptist Cathedral in Washington, DC. There he performed a…

On the feast-day of the Holy Apostle Philip, His Beatitude Theophilus, Patriarch of Jerusalem, received His Grace Bishop Arsenije of Nis with a group of pilgrims from Serbia in the monastery of the Holy Prophet Elijah near the Holy City of Jerusalem. It was in this monastery that the “Branko” Children’s Choir from Serbia performed…