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The Elder Metropolitan of Acheloos, His Eminence Stylios, reposed in the Lord on Wednesday at the age of 90. The reposed hierarch was the author of more than 100 books, dealing with theology, cosmology, anthropology and ecology, among others.

A feature is posted today on the Orthodoxia news agency focusing on Bethlehem, recounting the most beautiful story ever told. The guardian of the Church of the Holy Nativity, Fr. Rafael Grivas, appears on the video. 

The Ecumenical Patriarch, His All Holiness Bartholomew, welcomed children and young people from the ethnic Greek community in the Bosporus metropolis to the Fanar-district Patriarchate seat this week, reiterating that “…you were born here, you grew up here, and you must stay here, faithful guardians of the invaluable legacy of our Fathers, the grace of…

The vast majority of Christians around the world today celebrate the Nativity of Christ, our Lord, with several Orthodox primates issuing Christmas Day messages of hope and peace for humanity. The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, called on young people to realize that “… the Church is not a club for…

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  An initiative by the country’s Bar Association presidents to press for a return of the Parthenon Marbles, from their current display in the British Museum, has been placed under the auspices of the Greek President of the Republic. President Prokopis Pavlopoulos received Athens Bar Association and National Bar Association President Dimitris Vervesos,with the latter…

  A wide-ranging meeting was held this week at the Patriarchate of Georgia to deal with the increasingly acute problem of gambling in the Caucasus country, especially now amid the holiday season. A specific initiative to warn the public over the dangers of gambling was first proposed by the Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, His Holiness…

  More than 3,000 carolers and spectators attended a Christmas celebration at the Archdiocese of Australia, in Sydney, on the occasion of the 36th anniversary of the Archdiocese’s foundation – and also ahead of the 12-day festal period of joy, beginning with the Nativity of our Lord, the heralding of the New Year and the…