Conservations works at Agia Triada Basilica mosaics and Agios Philon church, in Karpasia, in the Turkish occupied part of Cyprus, have been completed and a ceremony to mark their completion will take place on September 21st, in the presence of a high-ranking EU official. Greek Cypriot co-chair of the bicommunal Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage,…

At the initiative of and with the blessing of its hierarch, His Eminence Archbishop Casian, the Romanian Archdiocese of the Lower Danube again undertook the tradition of donating backpacks and important school supplies to needy children at the beginning of the school year. According to the diocesan website, in the week before school started, 4,000…

Archbishop Elpidophoros of America appointed Archimandrite Athenagoras Ziliaskopoulos chaplain at Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in Boston, in charge of the worship life of the School and the orderly functioning of the Chapel. It is the first appointment of Archbishop Elpidophoros at the School of Theology, which he has officially announced that he…

One hundred and seventy-nine clergymen, monks and laypeople sent an open letter to the Primate and episcopate of the Orthodox Church of Greece, expressing their concern and alarm over the uncanonical granting of autocephaly to the Ukrainian schismatics. The text of the letter is given below. The Greek original with the list of signatories can…

The OCU and the UGCC are moving in the same direction, both stand on a patriotic basis but the key to their unification lies not in Ukraine, said Metropolitan Epiphany. It is necessary to look for common ground, which in the future may develop into good cooperation, for which the OCU and the UGCC plan…

Priests in an aircraft have “love-bombed” the Russian city of Tver with holy water, in an effort to purge its citizens of drunkenness and casual sex. Father Alexander Goryachev has boarded a plane every September since 2006 to mark the Russian Orthodox Church’s Day of Sobriety, and flown over Tver armed with icons in the…

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America has released the following Encyclical for the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross.   Protocol 34/19   September 14, 2019 The Universal Exaltation of The Precious and Life-Giving Cross To the Most Reverend Hierarchs, the Reverend Priests and Deacons, the Monks and Nuns, the Presidents and Members…

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His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians on Thursday received a Lebanese delegation led by Mitropolit Antonios Al Soury of Antioch in Zahle and founding director of the Gardenia Lebanese Farms Nicolas Abou Fayssal. The Catholicos of All Armenians gave his blessings to the guests and highly appreciated the programs that…