According to the independent website Ahval, which focuses on Turkey, more than 790 new Islamic religious schools have opened in the country over the past year, with these types of schools, called “İmam Hatip”, serving a total of 1.3 million pupils. With the addition of 798 İmam Hatip schools in the 2018-2019 academic year,…

  The Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, His Holiness Irinej, this week met with well-known anthropologist, author and motivational speaker Nick Vujicic, who was born without hands and legs, but who with the grace of God serves as an inspiration to millions of people around the world. The Primate of the Serbian Orthodox Church…

  The Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the All Saints, in Munich, Germany, was decorated with a subject of hagiography that reportedly has not before been depicted in an Orthodox church, namely, a meeting between the Resurrected Christ with His Disciples, on the first evening of the Resurrection, and their receiving of the Holy Spirit —…

  The Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain, His Eminence Nikitas, this week officiated at a blessing ceremony at the Greek Orthodox parish of St. John the Baptist, in north London, on the occasion of the annual Oct. 28th Greek national holiday. His Eminence spoke to the pupils participating at commemoration events regarding the value…

  The Metropolitan of Piraeus, His Eminence Seraphim, this week echoed other hierarchs in Greece and called on Orthodox clerics not to officiate at funeral or memorial services in cases where the deceased has selected cremation instead of burial. Seraphim, in fact, issued an encyclical to clerics in his diocese, on the occasion of the…

The Church today venerates the memory of the Holy Martyrs Zenobius and His Sister Zenobia. The siblings hailed from the province of Cilicia, in southeast Asia Minor. Zenobius was a physician and healer. Due to his virtue he was consecrated a Bishop of his native city. With his sister he was arrested, tortured and beheaded…

  Events commemorating the Greek 28 October public holiday, Ohi day, were celebrated around Australia. In Melbourne, events took place at the Axion Esti monastery at Northcote on Sunday, 27 October. Wreath-laying and other festivities followed at the church’s courtyard. On Monday, the Hellenic RSL organised a ceremony at the Hellenic Memorial near the Shrine…

Archbishop Makarios is making good on his promise of casting the church’s focus on youth. A rehabilitation centre for drug abuse will open in Melbourne with the support of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, Archbishop of Australia Makarios announced during his recent visit to Victoria. The reason behind this decision is that 38 per cent of Melbourne’s…

On Sunday, 27 October 2019, His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas con-celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of the Divine Wisdom in Bayswater with The Right Revd Bishop Maximos of Melitine (Assistant Bishop of the Metropolis of France) followed by Te Deum (Doxology) for 28th October 1940. Bishop Maximos presided at the Matins. thyateira.org.uk