In his Holy Week message, the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, describes the congregants’ worship as a melody. “Our worship truly becomes a melody of theology, according to an ancient ecclesiastical author. The week’s poetry is exceptional, an outpouring of faith as song and celebration; faith in the Cross and the…

Monday of the Holy Week is observed by Orthodox Churches around the world today, April 22, with a solemn Divine Liturgy commemorating the blessed and noble Joseph of the Old Testament and the fig tree, which was cursed and withered by the Lord. The withering of the fig tree was a miracle of special symbolism,…

The emblematic first edition of Skarlatos Byzantios’ “Konstantinoupolis” (Constantinople) in English has been released in English by the publishing house Istos, based in the Bosporus metropolis. The edition was first published in Constantinople in 1851. The translation is by Prof. Charis Theodorellis-Rigas, a scholar of ancient Greek and Latin at the Koç University.

Palm Sunday for Orthodox believers around the world is observed on Sunday, April 21, with various local traditions and rites, one dating centuries, revived around Greece. On the Ionian island of Corfu, musicians of the island’s venerable philharmonic again paraded through the UNESCO-protected old town quarter of the isle capital. A video of the parade…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Sunday expressed his abhorrence and sadness over the coordinated terrorist attacks against Churches and hotels in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where Roman Catholics on the island nation celebrated Easter Sunday. Dozens of people were killed and hundreds injured in yet another attack against Christians around…

The Byzantine rite Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts was performed this week at the village of Fikas, in central Albania’s Elbasan county, with the participation of students from the university Logos, accompanied by the Metropolitan Bishop of Apollonia and Fier, His Eminence Nikolla. His Eminence Nikolla officiated at the Divine Liturgy, later explaining the…

More than 4,500 invaluable ancient manuscripts at the renowned St. Catherine’s Monastery on the Sinai peninsula will again emerge from obscurity with the help of cutting-edge digital scanning and computer enhancement. According to a Reuters dispatch this past week, a team of experts from Greece is photographing thousands of fragile manuscripts, including some of the…

A Russian Orthodox priest monk at the All-Merciful Saviour Monastery on Vashon Island, in Washington State, was assaulted at a gas station this past week by a stranger, with authorities and the cleric pointing to a religious motive. Abbot Tryphon said the at-large suspect “zeroed in on my cross, because when he started coming my…

Thousands of clergy and believers lined the streets of Bucharest to remember Christ’s glorious Entry into Jerusalem but also to profess their faith publicly during the annual Palm Sunday procession on Saturday afternoon. See more photos Source and Photo credit: Basilica.ro / Raluca Ene