The Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, on Sunday praised an act of supreme good sportsmanship at the World Athletics Championships in Doha, Qatar — when an athlete from Guinea-Bissau, Braima Suncar Dabo, stopped running after noticing that Aruba’s Jonathan Busby was struggling and could barely stand up the men’s 5,000-meter heats. With one…

  The Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, will arrive on the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus on Tuesday, at the invitation of the Metropolis of Limassol. The specific Orthodox Metropolis on Cyprus is commemorating the 1400-year anniversary of the repose of St. John the Merciful, the Patriarch…

  In a shocking development out of west Africa, recently announced figures by UNICEF show that up to 8,000 minors, mostly Christians, have been kidnapped by the Islamist terror group Boko Haram. According to the same reports, 117 minors, the vast majority being girls, have been used by the terrorists as suicide bombers. Boko Haram…

  Members of the Church of Greece’s Permanent Holy Synod convened today, in the wake of this month’s Council of State (CoS) ruling, which considers the previous government’s decisions regarding to the teaching and the curriculum of religion classes in public schools, as unconstitutional. Conversely, the new center-right government this month announced that it will…

  Journalism profession is of particular importance in the functioning of the social body, by assuming the role of a community binder, impartial and independent, but expected to be constructive in the public space, often crossed by storms and uncertainties,’ Patriarch Daniel said. The Patriarch of Romania sent a message to the journalists in Romania…

A 1,500-year-old mosaic depicting Jesus’s feeding of the five thousand has been unearthed during an excavation of an ancient city near the Sea of Galilee, Daily Mail reports. The discovery of the so-called Burnt Church in Hippos, northern Israel, has enthralled archaeologists who have spent the summer combing it for historical evidence. A fire destroyed…

  His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel on Thursday blessed the footbridge that facilitates the access of tourists and believers to Snagov Monastery, the oldest monastic settlement in the Archdiocese of Bucharest. The footbridge was initially inaugurated by the Patriarch on 20 Nov. 2010. The blessing service of September 26, 2019 was officiated in the context of…

On Monday, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel celebrates his 12th anniversary at the helm of the Romanian Orthodox Church. This is the official celebration of Patriarch Daniel or the Patriarch of the National Cathedral as many could call him maybe superficially. However, there are many other “cathedrals” built under the Patriarch’s guidance, even though they are…

After giving the wronged person the good advice, Saint Paul goes on to give him advice of a higher tone, telling him not to be overcome with evil but overcome evil with good. For he knew that even if the enemy was a brute he would not go on being an enemy once he was…