Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Markos Bolaris this week said the exercise of religious and ecclesiastical diplomacy was a challenge for the foreign ministry, especially for a country like Greece, which has been at the cross-roads of civilizations and peoples over past centuries. He spoke during an interview granted to the Athens News Agency, the country’s…

US President Donald Trump on Monday afternoon hosted the annual White House event in honor of the March 25th Greek Independence Day. At a standing-room only event held at the White House’s East Room, and in the presence of many distinguished Greek-Americans, Cabinet members, US lawmakers and the ambassadors of Greece and Cyprus to the…

A closely watched permanent Holy Synod meeting will convene immediately after a Divine Liturgy in Athens on Tuesday, as Church hierarchs will assess the government’s various proposals and demands for changes in Church-state relations in the predominately Christian Orthodox nation. In a brief comment just after noon, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude…

Video from the icon procession at the St. Nicholas Orthodox Church of Cairo, Egypt was posted by the ethnic Greek community of the Egyptian metropolis. The Metropolitan of the Holy Archdiocese of Memphis, His Eminence Nicodemus, referred to the significance of the Sunday of Orthodoxy and the triumph over heresy, as he said.    …

Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Australia and New Zealand on Monday expressed its stern condemnation of the terrorist attack against two mosques in Christchurch last Friday, and offered its condolences to the families of the victims and the residents of the city and New Zealand.

The self-styled “Patriarch” of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kiev Patriarchate, His Eminence Filaret, the head of the diocese of Kiev, listed the conditions, as he said, under which the now autocephalous Orthodox Church of the Ukraine could become a Patriarchate, according to the news agency Hlavkom. The Ukrainian hierarch added that he was not invited…

The Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II, spoke on the course of his Church since 1990, when it was recognized and granted autocephaly by the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia reminded of the initiatives of late lamented Ecumenical Patriarch Demetrios to reconsider the canonical issue of the Georgian Church’s autocephaly.

The Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Divine Beatitude Theodore, officiated at the Great Vespers on the Sunday of Orthodoxy, and the Divine Liturgy, at the Holy Cathedral Church of the Annunciation of the Theotokos, in Alexandria. I In addressing the congregation, the Patriarch of Alexandria noted that “we do not enclose…

   The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill, celebrated the Sunday of Orthodoxy at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow. After the Divine Liturgy, the Russian Patriarch referred to the unity of the Orthodox Church, while adding, in a characteristic statement, that he is also praying for peace in the…