‘We are during the Nativity Fast, a sacred time, during which the first Sunday gospel readings relate about the danger of wealth, about the fact that it is not enough to combine fasting with prayer,’ His Grace Bishop Justin of Maramures said during his homily last Sunday. ‘We need to do many good deeds, especially…

A group of Orthodox youth joined the Finnish community leaders who gathered at the gates of the Helsinki Synagogue to lay bouquets of flowers in a show of solidarity with Finland’s Jewish community, which has been subjected to a spike in anti-Semitic attacks this year. The action was prompted in part by a recent incident…

Argentine-born Joseph Bosch was appointed Greek Orthodox metropolitan of Buenos Aires, the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s Holy Synod said on Friday. The previous metropolitan, Tarasius, was elected to the see of Rodopolis.   — Source: ANA & thenationalherald.com

Sleep is a particular state of nature, an image of death, inactivity of the senses. Sleep is one, but, like desire, its sources and occasions are many: that is to say, it comes from nature, from food, from demons, or perhaps, sometimes, from extreme and prolonged fasting, through which the flesh is weakened and at…

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The Church today venerates the memory of St. Nicholas of Thessaloniki, St. Philumenus of Lycaonia, who was martyred during the reign of the Roman Emperor Aurelian, and the neo-martyr Archimandrite Philumenus of Cyprus, who was martyred at the Orthodox Monastery of Jacob’s Well, near the city of Samaria in the West Bank on Nov. 29,…

This past month proved deadly for the Christian communities in the war-ravaged northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with reports citing at least 10 attacks in November by the Islamist terror group ADF, which claimed the lives of around 100 people, most of whom were Christians.

An exact replica of the miraculous Panaghia Vimatarissa Holy Icon, enshrined in the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, on Mt. Athos, was greeted by the clergy and faithful on Thursday in the courtyard of the Piraeus Nursing Home. The replica of the Holy Icon will remain for veneration at the Cathedral of the Evangelistria,…

Today marks the 45th anniversary of the return of Cyprus President and Archbishop Makarios to the island republic, months after a Turkish invasion expanded to cover one-third of the island, which remains occupied to this day. The Greek Cypriot statesman, a symbol of democracy, justice and unwavering resolve for a united Cyprus, returned on Nov….