At the 19th All-American Council [AAC] held in Saint Louis, MO in July 2018, college students Dimitrios Rentel and Miriam Sheehan offered an inspiring, three-minute presentation during the final plenary session, in which they implored the Church to take youth ministry and the work of the Orthodox Church in America’s Department of Youth, Young Adult…

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Videos are posted today on the Orthodoxia news agency of the recent conveying of the Cincture of the Theotokos, also known as the Haghia Zoni, or Holy Sash in Greek, to law enforcement offices and hospitals in the Corinth area, in order to bestow its grace on officers and patients.     

An international exhibition of photographs and copper engravings from the Mt. Athos Monastery of Simonopetra, also known as the SImonos Petra, continues at a central hotel on the northeast Aegean island of Limnos. The exhibition will last until Sept. 10.        

The Bulgarian Orthodox Patriarchate this week organized a seminar for journalists covering ecclesiastical issues. In Tbilisi, the Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II, met with Georgian expatriates. The meeting was organized at the initiative of the Diaspora House organization. Georgian emigrants, who arrived from the US, Canada, Spain, Germany, Greece, Italy…

The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem on Tuesday was removed from UNESCO’s list of endangered world heritage sites, following extensive restorations at the Holy Site. The Church was named as a UNESCO world heritage site in 2012 and placed on its endangered list the same year due to its poor condition. UNESCO said Church…

New Democracy (ND) party president Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Wednesday pledged that his center-right party will not proceed with any revisions to the iconic Article III of Greece’s constitution, assuming the party comes in first in Sunday’s general election and forms a government. The specific article, which defines relations between the Greek state and the Autocephalous…

Award-winning actor, talented musician and devout Orthodox Christian Jonathan Jackson will be the special guest speaker at the 2019 Young Adult League Conference to be held over Labor Day Weekend in Long Beach, CA. On Friday, August 30, Jonathan will be the special guest speaker and he will share his personal journey to Orthodoxy, living…

Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II hosted Georgian emigrants. The meeting was organized at the initiative of the Diaspora House organization. Georgian emigrants, who arrived from the US, Canada, Spain, Germany, Greece, Italy and other countries, thanked the Georgian Patriarch for hosting and underlined that the Georgian communities and summer schools…