On the eighth day after His Nativity, our Lord Jesus Christ was circumcised, in accordance with Old Testament Law. All male infants underwent circumcision as a sign of God’s Covenant with the holy Forefather Abraham and his descendants. The Fathers of the Church explain that the Lord, the Creator of the Law, underwent circumcision in…

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The Metropolitan of Halkida, His Eminence Chrysostomos, declared the Sunday after Christmas as a day devoted to the children of his Metropolis, echoing an initiative by the Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece to dedicate a day to the unborn child. After Sunday’s Divine Liturgy, Chrysostomos hosted a dinner for staff members…

In his exclusive interview to the Orthodoxia News Agency this month, the Archbishop of Tirana and All Albania, His Beatitude Anastasios, movingly recounts his first days on the throne of the revived Orthodox Church in the country. He noted that “…I was alone in a hostile environment, on an unstable footing amid a difficult and…

The Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, on Sunday referred to the significance of monasticism and the ancient land of Egypt, in a sermon. “Egypt served as a sanctuary for the baby Jesus. Through His presence in Egypt, Christ transformed curse into blessing, inviting all peoples to salvation… Egypt over the next centuries became…

The Serbian Patriarchate’s Episcopal council in Montenegro, over the weekend, issued a stern announcement citing the reasons for an urgent resolution of problems and an end to what it condemned as “administrative violence” on the part of institutions of Montenegrin state. The announcement comes after last week’s ratification of a controversial law in the Adriatic country…

Greece’s education ministry is expected to proceed with reforms and changes at all education levels in 2020, according to reports. Nevertheless, reports are still sketchy on the initiatives that Minister Niki Kerameos will announce in terms of the religious lessons curriculum in primary and secondary schools. Kerameos, immediately after assuming her portfolio, said the ministry…

Director of Jordan Hospital, Abdullah Al-Bisher held a press conference today to talk about the results of the laboratory tests of the complex toxic substances that the Israeli occupation used to poison the Head of the Sebastia Diocese of the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem Archbishop Atallah Hanna. Al-Bisher said that since the moment Archbishop…

10 Christians and One Muslim Killed, Two Muslims Spared 12/29/2019 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on Wednesday evening, December 25, the Boko Haram sect known as Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) released a video showing the execution of 10 Christians and one Muslim. In the video, the group explains…