The Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, received visiting Greek Education and Religious Affairs Minister Niki Kerameos on Tuesday at the Archdiocese’s see in New York City. Several Greek Cabinet ministers are in the US metropolis for this week’s UN General Assembly. On Thursday, Elpidophoros will receive Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. During the…

  Recently strained Church-state relations in Greece appear to have turned a page, for the better, as the friction generated from the previous Greek government’s decisions and stated intent has given way to a gradual resolution of whatever differences. A week after a majority of Council of State (CoS) justices ruled that the previous government’s…

On Monday, Sept. 30, 2019, the Romanian Orthodox Church will celebrate the 12th enthronement anniversary of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel. On this occasion, beginning with 9.00 a.m. His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel will preside over the Divine Liturgy at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest. Participants will include the members of the Holy Synod, the members of…

  As the holy Orthodox Church celebrated the feast of the great 20th-century elder St. Silouan the Athonite yesterday, a site of his holy labors was reopened and consecrated on Mt. Athos. St. Silouan carried out his obedience for many years in the mill at St. Panteleimon’s Monastery on Mt. Athos, and it was there…

The site of a future Orthodox spiritual-educational center in Potsdam, Germany was consecrated on Sunday, September 15 following a festive Liturgy in honor of the 190th anniversary of the consecration of the Church of St. Alexander Nevsky in Potsdam. The Divine Liturgy was celebrated by His Eminence Archbishop Tikhon of Podolsk, head of the Berlin-German…

Kodiak, Alaska, September 25, 2019 “On December 21, 1793, Archimandrite Joasaph, along with three priest-monks, a Hierodeacon, and a lay monk, and a few support personnel left St Petersburg, Russia to journey over 7,300 miles to the Russian American settlement of Kodiak, Alaska. It remains the longest missionary journey by any group in recorded history….

A joyful event marked the first day of school in Lovech, Bulgaria last Monday, as the Orthodox Church opened its first school in the country. The moleben for the beginning of the school year with the blessing of water at Seven Saints Elementary School was celebrated by His Eminence Metropolitan Gabriel of Lovech, reports predanie.bg….

We must know that the divine light is not a natural phenomenon, like when we hit our head or other causes which generate electrical signals through the nervous system which our brain (more exactly our visual cortex) interprets as light. Also, the divine light is not like an emanation from God – it is God…

The Reverend Metropolitan Nektarios of Argolis has stressed that “Yoga is not an exercise, but an act of worship,” and is now holding an event on Sunday the 29th of September in Argos, to warn people about what he calls the “dangers” of yoga, pilates, and meditation. “When we have repentance in church, whether it…