Sixteen clergy from various places throughout the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America completed training on September 10-12, 2019 for expanding the ministry to support the clergy. The Archdiocesan Center for Family Care recently received a generous grant from Leadership 100 to train facilitators to lead clergy peer learning groups throughout the country. The focus of…

The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for Diaspora Greeks, Antonis Diamataris, met on Thursday, 12 September, 2019, with His Eminence Archbishop Damianos of Sinai, Pharan and Raitho. During the meeting, the Archbishop provided a brief historical overview of the Sinai Monastery and analysed the issues the Monastery is facing today, including, among other things, the…

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Several Greek visitors to the British Museum in London were shocked to see mold and humidity in one of its most famous halls, where the Parthenon Marbles are displayed. The tourists from Greece took pictures of the substandard museum conditions, which were then widely reproduced by Greek and international media. In 2018, water leaked from…

The Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, called on the country’s theology professors and lecturers not to short-change, as he said, their sense of missionary purpose, and to promote Christian values as much as possible. He made the statement during a meeting with theologians.

Members of Russia’s state Duma, the lower legislature, are expected to begin debate on declaring the Monday after Easter, known as Easter Monday, as a national holiday in the world’s largest country. Deputies of the Liberal Democratic Party said the legislation of an Easter Monday federal holiday would show the state’s respect towards the historic…

A US District Court Judge this week approved the sale of a historic northwest Chicago building which, since the 1960s, has housed the Greek Orthodox Holy Trinity Church. The Church property was sold for 2.5 million dollars to Universal Life. The parish now has 75 days in order to vacate the building. The Holy Trinity…

The mass Turkish daily “Milliyet” this week posted an article citing Turkish experts’ concerns over hairline cracks discovered at the Haghia Sophia Cathedral, which today serves as a museum in the Bosporus metropolis. The experts were quoted as saying that without restoration measures, the cracks could expand and endanger the entire structure in the long…

The legislative procedure to revise Greece’s constitution, which was begun by the previous government in Parliament, will now resume, but with a new Greek government in power and with a new Parliament composition. The entire process is being closely followed by the Church of Greece, especially over any possible revisions to Article 3, which deals directly…