The memory of the Panaghia Pantanassa, the Most-Holy Queen of All, the Virgin Mary, was venerated this week at the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi’s estate of Porto Lagos, on Lake Vistonida. Worshippers from the wider Thrace province of northeast Greece, as well as from other parts of the country, gathered at the Vatopedi…

The Moscow Patriarchate this week issued an urgent warning towards the faithful and clergy, citing the circulation of fake letters in Russia calling on parishes to transfer donations and reserves to specific bank accounts. The Moscow Patriarchate warned that this is an attempt to defraud parishes, Metropolises and monasteries – calling on those who receive…

The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, on Tuesday morning received ruling New Democracy (ND) deputy Zeta Makri. The lawmaker, elected from the central prefecture of Magnesia, briefed the Archbishop on her participation on a Parliamentary committee tasked with preparing proposals for constitutional revision, proposals that will come up for vote in…

US President Donald Trump became the first American leader to convene a meeting at the United Nations on religious freedom. Trump kicked off the UN General Assembly’s annual session with what he underlined was a “Global Call to Protect Religious Freedom.” In an address that was greeted with satisfaction by many religious leaders, Trump said…

Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, continued to meet with members of the Greek government this week, including Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis – as New York City again host the annual UN General Assembly. Upon his enthronement last June, Elpidophoros had emphasized that his primary priority will be to defend Orthodoxy and Hellenism. On Monday,…

The Church today venerates the memory of St. Thekla, the protomartyr of ancient Iconium, in central Asia Minor. St. Thekla is considered by the Church as Equal-to-the-Apostles, instructed in the Faith of Christ by the Apostle Paul, subsequently devoting her life to God at a time when Christians were shunned and persecuted.

  During the first ever conference on the mission of presbyteras in the Diocese of Huși, His Grace Bishop Ignatie noted that a presbytera is the guardian angel of the priest and of their home. The conference titled “What does it mean to give yourself as offering? Reflections on the mission of a presbytera” was…

  A 100-year-old building in the city of Haugesund in southwestern Norway was given new life on Sunday, as it was consecrated as a parish church of the Romanian Orthodox Church. The new church, the first Romanian Orthodox parish in Norway, is dedicated to the “O All-Hymned Mother” Icon of the Theotokos, as well as…

  n 22nd September 2019, in the city of Zahle, Lebanon – birthplace of Metropolitan Niphon of Philippopolis who has been serving as representative of the Patriarch of Antioch to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia since 1977, there was laid the first stone of the future Orthodox Church of the “Unexpected Joy” Icon…