The Metropolitan of Symi, His Eminence Chrysostomos, visited the extreme southeast Aegean islet of Ro this week, where he officiated at the Divine Liturgy at the islet’s small chapel, attended by national guard personnel stationed on Ro. His Eminence Chrysostomos also officiated at a memorial service for the late Despina Achladioti, the well-known “Lady of…

Representatives of the ethnic Greek community in Himare, a coastal district in south-central Albania, warned of yet another effort to eliminate millennia-old Hellenism from the district, following a latest decision by the Rama government in the country to confiscate property belonging to members of the ethnic minority.

The Metropolitan of Krinis and Kalamaria, His Eminence Ioustinos, spoke in an interview to the Orthodoxia news agency and Maria Giachnaki this week. His Eminence Ioustinos referred to the hope that characterizes a Christian, the refugee crisis, as well as the Macedonia ‘name issue’. A video (in Greek) is posted today on the Orthodoxia news…

The French association Human-Hist called for the inclusion of ancient Greek in UNESCO’s world heritage list, during sessions of the second international conference of ancient languages, which took place over the weekend in the French city of Autun.

The third Sunday of Great and Holy Lent falls on March 31 this year, whereby the Orthodox Church commemorates the Cross of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. The service at Orthodox cathedrals around the world includes a special veneration of the Cross, aimed to prepare the faithful for the commemoration of the Crucifixion during Holy…

A video tour of the Cathedral of the Nativity of Virgin Mary (Pantovassilissa) at Rafina, in the eastern Attica harbor town of the same name, due east of Athens, was posted this weekend on the Orthodoxia news agency’s web pages. The Cathedral hosts a Holy relic carried by ethnic Greek refugees in 1922 from the…

The funeral and burial of the late Archbishop of Australia Stylianos was held on Saturday in Sydney. A funeral service was held at the packed, with mourners and parishioners, Cathedral Church of the Annunciation (Evangelismos) of Our Lady in Sydney. The hierarchical Divine Liturgy and funeral procession was led by His Grace Bishop Seraphim of…

The Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania will remain by the side of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, Archbishop of Tirana, Durres and All Albania, His Beatitude Anastasios, emphasized on Saturday, in reference the distressing inter-Orthodox situation following the granting of the Tomos of autocephaly to the Orthodox Church of the Ukraine by the latter. In…

  A significant pre-Christian necropolis was excavated by archaeologists in Kiev, Ukraine, during works to construct a new pedestrian bridge, near the monument of St. Vladimir.