Dozens of faithful continued to flock to the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church on Chicago’s Northwest Side this week, after the caretaker and then worshippers on Sunday witnessed what looked like tears pouring from the Virgin Mary’s eyes on a wall fresco. The historic Cathedral faces foreclosure and was due to be on a…

  The Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Divine Beatitude Theodoros II, is expected to begin a lengthy tour of Orthodox parishes in sub-Saharan Africa immediately after the re-dedication of the Sts. Constantine and Helen Cathedral in Cairo. The Primate of the Orthodox Church in Africa is expected to visit Zambia and Burundi, as…

  Valery Doronkin, the head of a coordinating center established by the Moscow Patriarchate to combat alcoholism and to endorse sobriety, referred this week to the major problem of alcoholism and other addictions affecting teenagers and young adults in the country. In an article coinciding with the beginning of the new academic year in Russia,…

  Deputy Foreign Minister Antonis Diamantaris, who holds the expatriate Greeks portfolio, was set to be received today by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I. While in Turkey, the Greek minister will tour several Patriarchate-affiliated schools and institutions, the Greek consulate in the Bosporus metropolis as well as the emblematic Haghia…

  The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece on Tuesday continued his meetings with members of the new Greek government, as Tourism Minister Haris Theoharis was the latest Cabinet member to be received by the Archbishop at the Athens Archdiocese. The new ministry leadership has previously announced that boosting pilgrimage and religious tourism is among…

  The Church today venerates the memory of the virgin martyrs Menodora, Metrodora, and Nymphodora, who lived in northwest Asia Minor in the fourth century. The three sisters chose to live in a remote location in order to spend their days in fasting and prayer. The local Roman governor had them arrested after reports reached…

His Eminence Metropolitan Andrei of Cluj spoke at the International Ecumenical Conference on Orthodox Spirituality organized at the Monastery of Bose in Italy about the meaning of Christian hope. He noted that Christian hope is a continuous, active manifestation of faith, which is the starting point of spiritual life. “A faithful man, a spiritual man,…

On Monday, 9th September 2019, His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas participated in a workshop jointly organised by the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Interfaith Alliance for Safer Communities of the United Arab Emirates. The workshop was made up of representatives both from Europe and the Middle East. The workshop was held in the College des Bernardins in…

On September 6, 2019, Metropolitan Anthony of Chersonesus and Western Europe, head of the Moscow Patriarchate office for institutions abroad and Patriarchal Exarch for Western Europe, who is on a brief visit to Greece with a blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, met with the Primate of the Greek Orthodox…