NEW YORK – His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros met with the Direct Archdiocesan District Executive Board of the Federation of Greek Orthodox Church Musicians on Monday, September 16, in his office at the Archdiocese. Members of the Executive Board are Mrs. Anna Dounelis, President; Mr. Theodore Brakatselos, Vice-President; Mrs. Irini Kapareliotis, Treasurer; Mrs. Fay Pavlidis, Mrs….

For the first time ever in Greece, highly acclaimed Professors of the country’s oldest and highest internationally ranked university, officially bestow their expertise and guide academics and culturally desirous travelers through the events and actual sites that laid the foundations of Western Civilization and Christianity. Traces of Greece is the brainchild of the collaboration between…

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In Russia, His Holiness Kirill, the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, extended his condolences to the families of eight victims who died during a truck-bus collision in the Yaroslavl region on Saturday, September 14, 2019. A spokesman for the Russian Patriarch noted that the Metropolis of Yaroslavl, northwest of Moscow, is providing every possible…

The ancient tradition of the spreading of the news of the True Cross was revived by the Greek Orthodox community in the Heliopolis district of Cairo, Egypt. The expatriate Greek community’s president, Arlette Monsef, welcomed the Metropolitan of Memphis, His Eminence Nikodimos, and Metropolitan of Hermopolis, His Eminence Nicholaos, during the event. The ancient Church…

The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, attended a sanctification ceremony at a Church-run daycare center in the Dilesi township, north of Athens, which was also attended by the Metropolitan of Thebes and Livadia, his Eminence Georgios. He reminded that the specific daycare center is a partnership between the Metropolis of Thebes,…

US ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, Sam Brownback, underlined late last week that hostility toward Christians around the world has reached an all-time high. Brownback said “…There is more persecution of Christians now … than at any time in the history of the world, and the Christian faith is the most persecuted faith in the…

The Church today honors the memory of Euphemia, the Great Martyr. St. Euphemia hailed from the city of Chalcedon, in northwest Asia Minor, and lived in virginity. She suffered persecution, torture and ultimately martyrdom during the reign of the Roman Emperor Diocletian, in the early fourth century. Her sacred relics are preserved at the Patriarchate…

Let us now carefully consider whether God ever allows evil to be forced on his saints, either by himself or by someone else. And you will certainly find that this never happens. For another can never possibly force the evil of sin upon anyone who does not consent and who resists, but only on someone…