‘It would be wonderful if the dependence on the word of God were at least directly proportional to the addiction to our smartphone,’ wrote Wednesday His Grace Bishop Ignatie of Husi on his Instagram account marking the Bible Day. He stressed that we are in ‘the age of word inflation,’ an inflation which lacks the…
On November 13, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros offered the keynote address at an Ecumenical Symposium titled “Truth does not fear dialogue,” hosted by Saint Peter’s Church with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York; the Metropolitan New York Synod, ELCA; The Grace Foundation; and Yale Divinity School. In his address, Archbishop Elpidophoros emphasized the importance…
The more you love Christ, the more it seems to you that you do not love Him and yearn more and more, to love Him. Because the most beautiful and compelling discourse about love is the embrace, let us open widely all the arms of our heart and to hold everyone in our embrace so…
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A Week of Orthodox Christian Youth is taking place for a second straight year in the Bulgarian city of Yambol, beginning on Tuesday. The event has the blessing of the Metropolitan of Sliven, His Eminence Joanikii, and is organized jointly with the municipality of Yambol.
The Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, this week issued an encyclical to all Greek Orthodox parishes on the island continent, calling on the clergy and faithful to a joint prayer service on Sunday in order to pray for an end to a punishing draught and the end of wildfires in southeast Australia. His Eminence…
Particularly moving scenes were recorded in the northern Greece city of Thessaloniki, which this past week welcomed the Holy Relic of St. John Chrysostom and a wonder-working icon of the saint. On Friday, the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, read out the blessing and sanctification of St….
The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, has returned to the Patriarchate’s Fanar district headquarters after concluding a nine-day tour of the Holy Metropolis of Belgium & Exarchy of the Netherlands and Luxemburg, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of its foundation. On Thursday, His All Holiness was received by the…
Today marks the dour 36th anniversary of the illegal and secessionist declaration of statehood by a Turkish-Cypriot pseudo-state in the one-third of the island republic still occupied by the Turkish military. The unilateral action was roundly condemned by the international community at the time, with UN Security Council resolution 541 “deploring” the action, as it…