An exclusive feature is posted today on the web-pages of the Orthodoxia news agency focusing on the annual summer religious feast celebrated in the village of Vroukountas, in the interior of Karpathos island. Father Yannis Diakogeorgiou offers a guided tour of the customs, rites and traditions of the spectacular region.       

The Russian Orthodox Church on Thursday will open another family shelter in the Russian capital. The Moscow Patriarchate has unveiled an extensive social support program, which aims to operate shelters for children facing serious illnesses, along with their parents or guardians, in practically every region of the world’s largest country.  

The newly enthroned Archbishop of Thyateira & Great Britain, His Eminence Nikitas, paid his first visit as Archbishop to the Patriarchal Monastery of St. John the Baptist, near Maldon, Essex. Acting under the direction of Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, Nikitas presided at the enthronement of the Monastery’s new Abbot, Archimandrite…

  Monasteries on the semi-autonomous Orthodox monastic community of Mt. Athos today celebrate the Dormition of the Theotokos, the Ever Virgin Mary, with celebrations particularly imposing at the Holy Monastery of Iviron, the current holder of Mt. Athos’ rotating administration. The Great Feast Day is also highly significant for the Holy and Great Monastery of…

The body of deceased Metropolitan Ierotheos lay in repose on Wednesday at the Holy Trinity Cathedral, the northeast Aegean island of Limnos. A Divine Liturgy was held in the morning, with a funeral service and interment held later in the afternoon. Hundreds of mourners gathered at the island’s Metropolitan Cathedral to pay their last respects…

 The Church today celebrates the Synaxis of the Holy Fathers of the Kiev Caves, whose relics repose in the Far Caves of St. Theodosius.

The former Patriarch of Jerusalem, the Elder Eirineos, will reportedly arrive in Athens on Thursday, where he will then be transported to the Archdiocese of Athens’ newly opened geriatric care center in Dilesi, north of the Greek capital, according to sources that spoke to the Orthodoxia news agency. An intervention by Deputy Foreign Minister Antonis…

It was fitting that she, who had kept her virginity in childbirth, should keep her own body free from all corruption even after death. It was fitting that she, who had carried the Creator as a child at her breast, should dwell in the divine tabernacles… It was fitting that God’s Mother should possess what…

Thus as art can also be the fountain of true light, the inexhaustible treasury of life itself, the most fruitful source of blessing, who has won for us and brought us all good things — though for a while thou wast covered corporeally with death; nonetheless, thou dost pour out pure and inexhaustible streams of…