U.S Secretary of State and his wife arrived at the Athens Cathedral and observed Sunday mass. After the Divine Liturgy, the Head of the Metropolitan Cathedral Father Thomas Synadinos showed them the chapel of St. Eleftherios, which is next to the main cathedral.   (Photos by Eurokinissi/Christos Bonis).

Women who leave Islam in sharia-ruled country are hard-pressed to find their way. Sa’aada Hussein’s husband didn’t seem to be a very devoted Muslim by Somalia’s strict standards, so she hoped it would be safe to ask him for permission to read the Bible. After all, he chewed khat, a plant in East Africa that…

St. Anne’s Skete (or, less commonly, The Major Skete of St. Anne’s) is one of four sketes attached to the Great Lavra of Mount Athos. It a Greek idiorrhythmic (hermitage-style) skete consisting of fifty one kalyvae and it is located at an altitude of 340 m in a rugged but fertile region close to the…

Whatever we prefer to God, we make it into a god for ourselves. Given that, don’t wage your Christian struggle with sermons and arguments, but with true love. We live in a world of a new form of slavery, in which we believe in the power of our own mind and that’s why we forget…

In his interview given to the leading Belgrade newspaper “Politika” of the 29th September 2019 His Holiness expressed his opinion on the Church – State Relations: In the past eight centuries, the relationship between the Church and the State has changed significantly. What is the situation today? Naturally, we have no illusion that the time of harmonious relation…

The Metropolitan Cathedral in Iași, Romania has entered a new era of its existence. After 30 years of extensive consolidation and restoration work, the church, dedicated to St. Parascheva, the Presentation of the Lord, and St. George, has finally opened without scaffolding, fully revealing its grandeur and beauty, and just in time for the annual…

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America speaks about the importance of church music in our worship and the vital role of clergy, chanters, and choirs in guiding others in worship and prayer. He also announces this year’s National Church Music Sunday to be commemorated on Sunday, October 6, 2019.     Each year, on the…

A reading of victims’ names at the time bullets flew two years ago marked the end on October 1 of the second anniversary of a shooting that killed 58 people at a country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip. Greek-American Greg Zanis, who made wooden crosses with victims’ names and photos, put them up…

Vladimir Legoyda recalled that an area of pastoral responsibility of the Russian Orthodox Church includes 16 independent states. The Chairman of the Synodal Department for the Relations of the Church with Society and Media of the Moscow Patriarchate, Vladimir Legoyda, said that the Russian Orthodox Church is not the Church of the Russian Federation only. He said this on October…