An interview by the Metropolitan of Serres, His Eminence Theologos, to Maria Giachnaki, is posted today on the Orthodoxia news agency’s web pages. Among others, His Eminence expands on the contributions of Hellenism and Orthodoxy to humanity over the past two millennia, as well as discussing the recently implemented Prespa agreement.

The Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Australia and primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, His Eminence Stylianos, passed away on Monday, March 25, on the Feast Day of the Annunciation and Greek Independence Day. The long-time and beloved Archbishop of the Greek Church in Australia had been ill over the past few months, before…

Hellenism and Greeks around the world celebrated on Monday, as March 25 marks the major Christian Orthodox holiday of the Feast of the Annunciation as well as the annual commemoration of the beginning of the Greek War of Independence in 1821 from the Ottoman empire. In the Greek capital, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece,…

The oldest existing book in Russia, the Novgorod Codex, is a Christian palimpsest consisting of three bound wooden tablets. Each contains four pages filled with wax, on which its one-time author wrote dozens to hundreds of texts during two or three decades, each time wiping out the preceding text. The wax of the codex contains psalms…

An estimated 1,200 people walked over a frozen Lake Michigan last week to view a large Crucifix that rests under the massive lake’s usually murky waters. According to the Aleteia website, the Crucifix is located about 800 feet off the shores of Petoskey, Michigan and under 22 feet underwater. The  1,850-pound Crucifix was carved by Italian…

Another series of attacks against Christian villages in central Nigeria were reported over the weekend, with 15 communities targeted. The death toll was not immediately reported, although numerous homes were destroyed, as well as nine churches. The activity of radical Islamic insurgents in Nigeria’s middle belt since January 2019 has resulted in 25 villages being…

The second Sunday of Great Lent, celebrated yesterday in Orthodox Cathedrals around the world is the feast day of St. Gregory Palamas, the Archbishop of Thessalonica in the 14th century. St. Gregory is the pre-eminent exponent of hesychasm, mystical tradition of contemplative prayer in the Orthodox Church.

Ten pre-1917 Orthodox icons saved and hidden by the Mosfilm studios in Moscow were personally returned this week to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill. The icons were handed over by the Director General of the film studio Karen Shakhnazarov, with the Russian Patriarch thanking him. In reply, Shakhnazarov thanked His…

The miraculous survival of one young American woman from a deadly building collapse  38 years ago in Kansas City, Missouri, was her epiphany  to turn to God. Almost four decades later, Sister Aemeliani, is today an Orthodox nun at a convent in the Holy Metropolis of Thebes and Livadeia, north of Athens. The former Melanie Sarra Hanson…