On Tuesday morning, August, 28/ September 10, 2019, the Consul General of Greece in Adelaide, Mr. George Psiahas, son of the late Dionysios Psiahas, Diplomat at the Consulate of Jerusalem and graduate of the Patriarchate School of Zion, visited His Beatitude the Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos, escorted by his mother and wife. Mr. Psiahas asked…

Once, the trees went forth to anoint a king over them, and they said to the olive tree, “Reign over us!” But the olive tree said to them, “Shall I leave my fatness with which God and men are honored, and go to wave over the trees?” Then, the trees said to the fig tree,…

A good spiritual father is not one who simply forgives sins in confession. All spiritual fathers absolve sins by virtue of their ordination. A good spiritual father is one who first of all by his personal example and then by his instruction helps us to not fall again, or at least to progress spiritually. In…

Following the celebration of the new ecclesiastical year and the commemoration of the Indiction, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew announced his plans to convene a fourth international Forum on Modern Slavery. The fourth Forum will bring together scholars, artists and experts in material culture for an exploration of the various media through which modern enslavement…

The Abbot of the Vatopedi Monastery, Archimandrite Ephraim and the brothers of the Monastery, Frs. Evdokimos and George, as well as the Hieromonk Chrysostom, Geron of the Holy Cell of Saint John Chrysostom in the Skete of Koutloumousiou, made a pilgrimage visit to the Holy Center of the Ecumenical Patriarchate today, Tuesday, Sept. 10, in…

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His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America is planning to visit Bahamas which recently was struck by hurricane Dorian, which left behind many dead and wiped out entire towns and islands. The day of his visit has not been established yet, but he has given directives to his close associates to organize it because his wish…

Figures released this week by the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights chronicles what it calls the continued looting and destruction by jihadi forces of Christian places of worship in war-ravaged Syria. Additionally, the same NGO, which is deemed as more “pro-opposition” and anti-Assad, claimed that government forces and allies have also targeted Churches between…

An event dedicated to the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, was held this week in the courtyard of the St. Maria Magdalena Cathedral, in the Halepa district of Chania, a city in western Crete. The event, complete with a musical concert, was held on the occasion of the new ecclesiastical year,…