NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – The National Council of Churches annual Christian Unity Gathering (CUG) and fall governing board meeting met in Newport News, Virginia from October 13-16, 2019. This year’s CUG remembered and lamented the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first people from Africa, who were immediately enslaved, with a ceremony at Point…
MEDIA ADVISORY Mon., Oct. 21, 2019 6:00 p.m. Delphi Award Dinner of the AHEPA Chapter of New York City The Boat House, NYC Tue., Oct. 22, 2019 10:00 a.m. HCHC Executive Committee Meeting Hellenic College Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology Brookline, Mass. Wed., Oct. 23, 2019 9:00 a.m. Interfaith Reception & Breakfast of…
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The Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Most Divine Beatitude Theodoros II, this week again sent a message of peaceful coexistence between the peoples of the Mediterranean and the resolution of whatever differences, in receiving some 100 pilgrims and officials from the Cypriot city of Paphos. The visit comes within the framework of…
An Archieratic con-celebration was held at the Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral in New York City on Sunday, officiated by the Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, His Beatitude Epiphanius, and co-officiated by the Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros and other Metropolitans of the Archdiocese of America. His Beatitude Epiphanius read from the Church’s…
The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, was proclaimed as the “spiritual proprietor” of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, during a ceremony at the Monastery’s synodical hall on Monday. The high distinction was bestowed upon the Ecumenical Patriarch by the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Monastery, who cited…
The Transcarpathian monks who inhabited St. Panteleimon’s Monastery in the early 20th century were full of joy and the grace of God, wrote St. Silouan the Athonite in a newly-discovered letter. According to Sergei Shumilo, the Director of the International Institute of the Athonite Legacy, a previously-unknown original letter of St. Silouan, dated April 16,…
he Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholemew I, on Monday officiated at a Trisagion, “Thrice Holy”, service at the grave site of Athonite Elder Joseph of Vatopedi, a disciple of the Elder Joseph the Hesychast. The Ecumenical Patriarch on Monday paid a historic visit to the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi on…
Excerpts from the intervention of His Eminence Metropolitan Ignatius of Demetrias, Chairman of the Synodal Committee for Inter-Orthodox and Inter-Christian Relations During the Extraordinary Session of the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece (12th October 2019) Your Beatitude Archbishop of Athens and all Greece, Brothers in Christ, The Synodal Committee for Inter-Orthodox and Inter-Christian…