The Metropolis of Ilia, in southwest Greece, this week announced an initiative to host several single-parent families of asylum seekers and unaccompanied third country minors, mainly Syrian nationals – by their declaration – who landed onto a handful of Greek isles from neighboring Turkey. The Metropolis, which extends over the same-name prefecture in the Peloponnese,…

The Archbishop of Crete, His Eminence Irineos, this week expressed his sadness over a last-minute decision by the Greek government not to reintroduce the offense of malicious blasphemy of religion and insult to religion in the country’s penal code. In a statement released by the Archdiocese of Crete, His Eminence noted that a sober and…

The Church today venerates the memory of St. John Chrysostom, the Archbishop of Constantinople. The greatest and most beloved of all early Christian orators, St. John was born in the ancient Near East city of Antioch in the year 344 or 347. St. John was surnamed Chrysostom, which means Golden-mouth in Greek, because of his…

Your Holiness and Beatitude! We, the students of Tbilisi Theological Academy and Seminary express our support toward you in connection with the deplorable events, recently evolved in the Apostolic Church of Georgia. We are infinitely grateful to you for the work you have done for the Church of Christ and Georgian Nation. You had to…

We, the Rector of Tbilisi Theological Academy and Seminary, the members of the Academic Council and the Dissertation Committee, teachers, professors and members of the administrative board, express our absolute support to His Holiness and Beatitude, Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, and unequivocally denounce the intentional campaign of slander which has lately taken place in such…

q-n about the Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) on the Jvari Monastery damage study    CDA Rood: Jvari Monastery is one of the most important symbols of Georgian culture, religion and history.  It is unique and very important from an architectural perspective and, of course, it is considered the birthplace, in a sense, of Christianity…

Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II today will hold solemn prayers at the Metechi Bridge in Tbilisi in commemoration of 100,000 Martyrs. The believers will gather at 17:00 at the territory. The creative union “National Imperative” will give a theatrical performance on the theme. The Hundred Thousand Martyrs are saints of…

The U.S. Embassy in Georgia will finance the first phase of Jvari Monastery’s conservation works, reads the statement released by the U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi. “On November 12, the U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi will announce funding for a project focused on the conservation of damaged stones on the facades of the Major Church at Jvari…

The Greek community of Lowell, Massachusetts, one of the first and largest in the United States, is being celebrated through an exhibit taking place at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. The exhibit, currently showing at the University Crossing building, is called “Acropolis of America: The Greek Community of Lowell 1874–2020.” The fascinating display consists…