The life of Greek Orthodox priest Themistocles Adamopoulos continues to fascinate. Known as “Themi Adams”, the bass guitarist of the Australian psychedelic rock band “The Flies”, in the mid 1960s — the one-time atheist and diehard Marxist today is a Greek Orthodox priest who has spearheaded the Church’s apostolic mission in Ebola-ravaged and poverty-stricken Sierra…

The persistent efforts to reconvert the 13th century Orthodox Cathedral of Hagia Sophia, in the Black Sea city of Trabzon, into a mosque continue unchecked. A court in the city of Samsun in 2018 may have blocked plans by Turkey’s commission for the protection of monuments to reconvert the historic Orthodox cathedral back into a…

Disturbing reports continue to come from the Holy Land, in the same locations where Christ walked and preached two millennia ago, citing the stepped up persecution against Christians – an ominous development amid years of a dramatically shrinking of the ancient Christian communities there. Incidents of vandalism against Churches in the West Bank and intimidation…

Over 1,000 pilgrims from the Archdiocese of Roman and Bacau travelled to Putna Monastery together with their Archbishop Ioachim to celebrate the feast day of Saint Jacob of Putna on Wednesday, May 15, 2019. ‘On the 300th birthday anniversary of Saint Jacob of Putna, the Lower Land travelled to the Upper Land,’ the abbot of…

Leading the patronal feast of Sihastria Putnei Monastery, His Eminence Archbishop Pimen referred to the re-establishment of the monastic settlement noting that since 1990 ‘through the blessing of God and with the generosity of believers (…) the wilderness of before bloomed like a lily.’ ‘With every small contribution was made what we see here today….

His Beatitude Metropolitan Onuphry of Kiev and All Ukraine, the primate of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, loved and respected throughout the entire Orthodox Church, had the honor of celebrating the Divine Liturgy in the Tomb of the Lord in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on Sunday. Met. Onuphry is currently on…

On Friday, May 17, 2019, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America addressed the National Council of the Order of Saint Andrew, Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate at its regularly scheduled meeting. Speaking via videoconference from the Phanar, America’s new Archbishop spoke for 30 minutes with the Archon leaders regarding his imminent service as Archbishop, which…

The Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Most Godly Beatitude Theophilos II, on Friday received 20 representatives of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society. The Patriarch was briefed by the representatives, from Russia and elsewhere, over the Society support towards the Orthodox faithful in the Holy Land. During the meeting, the chairman of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society,…

Somber events marking the 100-year anniversary of the Pontian Genocide are taking place this weekend throughout Greece. The Pontian Greeks, with a recorded history of more than two millennia in the south and southeastern shores of the Black Sea, suffered mass killings and violence by the Ottoman Turks and the subsequent Kemalist forces during WWI…