The Church today venerates the memory of Eumenius, the Wonder-worker, Bishop of Gortynia. St. Eumenius took up monastic life in his youth, and later became Bishop of Gortynia, on the large island of Crete. He travelled to Rome and Thebes in Upper Egypt, where after working many miracles, he reposed in deep old age.

A decision by Greece’s Parliament president to establish a committee of MPs in the ongoing process for constitutional revision was published on Wednesday, as widely expected. Members of the committee, selected from all political party formations represented in Greece’s 300-deputy legislature, are tasked with processing constitutional revision proposals passed by the previous Parliament plenum, before…

The Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, this week visited the Basilica of the Nativity in Bethlehem, as part of his ongoing tour of the Holy Land and visit to the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem. On Monday, the Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Most Godly Beatitude Theophilos III, welcomed Archbishop Makarios at the Patriarchate, along…

A propaganda video that surfaced this month shows the North Korean regime attempting to stamp out any and all Christian elements in the isolated communist dictatorship. The video reveals how the Pyongyang attempts to slander Christian believers as “religious fanatics” and “spies”, as it claims, intent on undermining the stability of one of the most…

The head of the Russian interior ministry’s main directorate for counter-terrorism  on Tuesday said that several clandestine cells of the ISIS terrorist group had been eliminated in 17 Russian regions so far this year. According to a report by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), which quoted the official, during the first half of the year,…

The Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Eminence Hilarion, arrived in Spain this week for an official visit, with a blessing of His Holiness, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia. Hilarion, the head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations (DECR), also met with the Russian ambassador to Madrid, Yuri Korchagin, with talks revolving…

Archaeologists in Israel may have discovered the Biblical town of Emmaus, which is linked to Jesus’ resurrection and the Ark of the Covenant, Fox News channel reports. Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a 2,200-year-old fortification at Kiriath-Jearim, a hill on the outskirts of Abu Ghosh, a village near Jerusalem. The fortification dates back to…

On September 17, 2019, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR), who is on a visit to Spain with a blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, visited the Russian embassy in Madrid to meet with Russian Federation ambassador to the Kingdom of…

Romania ranks as the sixth-largest country of origin for foreign tourists visiting Israel, said on Tuesday, September 10, the Development Director of the Israeli Ministry of Tourism, Ksenia Kobyakov, at an event dedicated to the tourism in Israel organized in Bucharest. „As far as Romanian tourists are concerned, in two years their number has increased…