The village of Aguacate, near the Mexico border in Guatemala, became home to first-ever Orthodox medical clinic in Guatemala, and possibly in all of Central America, in 2015. Most of the residents of the village joined the Orthodox Church in 2010, along with more than 100 other communities throughout the country. Now, the Fr. Andres…

With the blessing of His Grace Bishop Irinej, 20 members of St. George Serbian Orthodox Church in North Canton, Ohio, embarked on their 5th annual Lenten retreat to New York. The program began began on Friday, March 22nd, when the faithful group gathered at the Cloisters Museum in New York City. This museum is a…

On the first Sunday of the Great and Holy Lent, when we celebrate the victory of Orthodox faith over heresies, orthodox clergy and faithful in Columbus joined together in celebration of this great feast. The Pan-Orthodox Divine Liturgy was celebrated at the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral in downtown Columbus, Ohio. During Divine Liturgy the clergy…

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The Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, His Holiness Irinej, this week received the Crown Prince of Yugoslavia, Alexander II Karađorđević, and Princess Katherine Karađorđević, at the Patriarchate in Belgrade. Discussions focused on the course of the country and the Orthodox Church.    

Reports of almost daily kidnappings of members of Somalia’s tiny Christian community continue. Most of the victims are young and teenage girls, with gruesome details citing female genital mutilation and then forced marriages to Muslim men. Resistance to forced conversation is often punished by beheading. Strife-plagued Somalia, in the Horn of Africa, is, according to data,…

An ethnic Greek man who spent 30 years in the prisons of Albanian communist dictator Enver Hoxha, on charges of spying for Greece during the Cold War, passed away recently in the northwest city of Igoumenitsa. Loukas Christidis, a member of the ethnic Greek minority in the neighboring country, had detailed how he was tortured…

Municipal elections in Turkey on Sunday resulted in noteworthy losses for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling AKP party, with the conservative and Islamist-flavored party losing the biggest cities in the country to political rivals.

Archbishop Ieronymos on Monday received the Orthodox Metropolitan of France, His Eminence Emmanuel, and the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s Metropolitan of Adrianopolis, His Eminence Amphilochios. According to reports, the meeting comes amid efforts to warm relations between the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece. Several major issues in inter-Orthodox relations have arisen…