The Orthodoxia News Agency today hosts several video features whereby well-known Hollywood actors, musicians and directors recount how they came to know Orthodoxy and accept the Christian faith, despite having no previous personal experience.    

As Pravoslavie.ru reports, extremely rare footage from Mount Athos, shot in 1917 and 1918, has recently come to light online. The video is hosted on the YouTube channel “Mount Athos Film Archive / Αγιορειτική Ταινιοθήκη”, which was created not long ago. The first part of the video actually contains footage of the famous Greek monastery of the…

The Holy Synod of the Church of Greece has adopted an initiative by an anti-abortion group to dedicate one day of the year to the “unborn child,” it emerged Thursday. According to local reports, the Church’s hierarchy decided to establish the first Sunday after Christmas as the “Day of the Unborn Child,” following a petition…

This year, the UOC did not set a target to invite Local Churches to celebrate the Baptism of Rus, but representatives of some of them will still come to Kiev. Representatives of the Serbian Church and the Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia will arrive at the UOC-held festivities, dedicated to the celebration…

The Department of Youth and Young Adult Ministries of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (Y2AM) released a new episode of “Be the Bee” featuring His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America. “Why Service(s) Matter” is the 135th episode in the beloved video series that is viewed in homes and communities around the world. In this latest…

Sretensky Seminary, founded by current Metropolitan Tykhon (Shevkunov), contrary to rumors, will not be closed. This is apparent in Patriarch Kirill’s resolution, published on the website of the Russian Orthodox Church. According to the results of the work of the commission for the optimization of the educational process at Moscow Theological Academy and Sretensky Seminary,…

Today was another historic moment for the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia and the wider Greek-Australian community when His Eminence Archbishop Makarios, Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church, met, for the first time, the Prime Minister of Australia, the Hon. Scott Morrison MP, at the Commonwealth Parliament Offices in Sydney. The Prime Minister welcomed His…

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Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday afternoon received the Archbishop of Tirana and All Albania, His Beatitude Anastasios, at the Maximos Mansion government house in Athens. During their meeting, the primate of the Albanian Orthodox Church requested Mitsotakis’ continued support so that the Church in Albania can resolve problems that it faces in order…