The Sumela Monastery received two thousand visitors within four days, which opened to the public after four years of restoration work. Trabzon Provincial Culture and Tourism Director Ali Ayvazoğlu, according to OPEN TV correspondent Maria Zacharaki, said that “2,063 people visited the monastery from Saturday, May 25 to Tuesday May 28. This is a very…

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The new Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidoforos, was quoted in an interview with the Athens daily “Ethnos” this week as referring to his blessed offering to the Monastery of St. David, in northeast  Evia island. He also referred to the very signifcant impact that modern St. Iakovos Tsalikis played in his life. The Elder Iakovos…

The Serbian Orthodox Bishop of Raska-Prizren, His Grace Teodosije,  this week visited the people injured during a recent wave of violence in the province. Concerns are heightened in the region after the spike of tensions in Kosovo, 20 years after the province unilaterally seceded from Serbia. Persecution against Serbian Orthodox faithful by the predominately Albanian Muslim…

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill, this week received the speaker of Korea’s National Assembly, Moon Hee-sang, at his Patriarchal residence in Moscow. In his comments, the Russian Patriarch noted that Russia and Korea are countries with a rich cultural and spiritual tradition, and as such, inter-cultural dialogue should play an…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, convenes the 3rd International Halki Conference on Theology and Ecology, which takes place from May 31 to June 4. The conference will bring together some 50 distinguished theologians and specialists from 40 seminaries and institutes from all around the world, with talks focusing on theological…

Turkish President Tayyip Recep Erdogan on Wednesday took to his personal Twitter account to issue more threats against Hellenism — on the day that marked the 566th anniversary of the Fall of Constantinople in 1453. The increasingly authoritarian Turkish leader again denied the existence of the Armenian and Pontian Greek genocides of the early 20th…

The Church today, May 30, venerates the memory of St. Emilia, the mother of St. Basil the Great. Emilia was the daughter of a early Christian martyr and lived in the Asia Minor city of Caesarea in the 4th century AD. Ten children were born to the Emilia and the elder Basil, her husband: five sons…

The reliquary with a part of the Holy Cincture (Holy Belt) of the Mother of God from Kato Xenia Monastery arrived at St Parasceva Church in Voluntari on Thursday morning, May 30. The delegation from Greece was welcomed by Fr. Cristian Burcea, dean of Ilfov Nord Deanery, in the presence of many believers. The Holy…