St Gavriil, Metropolitan of Chisinau and Hotin, was celebrated on Tuesday, 3rd September 2019, at the Monastery of Capriana, ctitored by medieval Princes of Moldova. Metropolitan Vladimir of Chisinau and all Moldova arrived early morning at the holy settlement to celebrate the Divine Liturgy. Archbishop Sava of Tiraspol and Dubasari, Bishop Anatolie of Cahul and Comrat,…

“The best Greeks that exist today are the Greeks of Australia.” With these touching words, the newly enthroned Archbishop Makarios paid special tribute to all the early Greek Australians and their achievements. He addressed the crowd at a dinner hosted by St Basil’s homes at the Adelaide Oval on Tuesday night in honour of his…

On September 3, 2019 the inauguration of the New Academic Year took place at the Saint John of Damascus Institute of Theology at the University of Balamand. His Beatitude Patriarch John X of Antioch and all the East presided over Vespers at the Patriarchal Monastery of Our Lady of Balamand, with the presence of His…

NEW YORK – Archbishop Elpidophoros of America invites all faithful to a special concert at Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall on Thursday, October 10, 2019 at 8 p.m. to benefit Saint Nicholas Church and National Shrine. The concert will feature the debut performance of Yiannis Hadjiloizou conducting the Athens Philharmonic in Gustav…

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Message of His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, at the Ecumenical International Conference on Orthodox Spirituality in Bose, 4-6 September 2019. Please find below the full text of His Beatitude’s message in Italian: Cari partecipanti, Con grande gioia ci rivolgiamo in quest’anno, 2019, ai partecipanti alla XXVII Conferenza ecumenica internazionale di spiritualità…

To honor the important work that many charities do, in 2012 the United Nations decided to nominate an annual International Day of Charity as an official day of recognition and celebration on September 5. The reason the date was chosen is because it is the anniversary of the death of Mother Teresa of Calcutta. This…

  A feature is posted today on the pages of the Orthodoxia news agency featuring the Panagia Kakaviotissa Chapel, which is located atop a mountainous cave on the northeast Aegean island of Limnos, and near the village Evgati. Orthodox monks from the nearby island of Aghios (saint) Efstratios arrived on the bigger isle in the…

  Chinese authorities recently announced an expansion of a controversial law against proselytizing or imposing one’s faith on minors in the country. Essentially, Beijing now aims to outlaw Sunday schools and other education programs by Churches in the country, and by extension, to even prohibit baptisms of minors. In many cases, police have already pasted…