A new edition by the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, one of the venerable monasteries that comprise the semi-autonomous Orthodox monastic community of Mt. Athos, is devoted to the life, teachings and spiritual guidance of Elder Iosif – Joseph – (1921-2009). Iosif’s monastic calling left an indelible mark on the community’s monastic life and…

Some 2,000 people in India will be baptized into the Christian Orthodox faith, including 47 Protestant pastors. Russian Orthodox clerics from the United States, Canada and Russia have travelled to the Indian subcontinent for the religious rite. The number of Orthodox faithful in India is currently estimated at more than 100,000.   

His Beatitude Anastasios, the Archbishop of Tirana, Durres and All Albania, was honored during an official event on Saturday at the University of Salzburg’s main amphitheatre. The Primate of the Albanian Orthodox Church was honored by the Salzburg-based European Academy of Sciences and Arts as an Honorary Senator of the venerable society.   

The leader of a group representing Muslims in Greece, Egyptian Naim El Gantour, on Saturday expressed what he called “bitterness” over a mosque being built in Votanikos district in central Athens, calling the building a “big kiosk”. The Muslim place of worship, constructed with state funding, as repeated Greek governments have declined financing from predominately…

A civic group in northern Greece devoted to promoting the archaeological excavations and research at the ancient Amphipolis site, in Serres prefecture of the central Macedonia administrative region, has filed a lawsuit charging the “deliberate and systematic cover-up” of findings and artifacts discovered at the site. The group accuses the relevant culture ministry and the…

The Skopje-based state-run MIA news agency on Saturday reported that a top diplomat, Amb. Viktor Gaber , tolds participants at a joint meeting – held to consider changes in text books – that the issue of deciding on an exact definition of “irredentism” will be on the agenda of the next session. One of the…

Today, Saturday March 2, marks the anniversary of the official liberation of the eastern Aegean island of Samos, the date when two Hellenic Navy vessels landed on the already semi-autonomous isle in 1913. Samos had been governed as a tributary of the Ottoman empire since 1834, with a Christian of Greek descent chosen as a…

The Holy Cross Brooklyn Outreach Center continues its long-standing efforts to collect food, clothing and personal hygiene items for homeless people in the New York City Borough.

In Bucharest, the Romanian Orthodox Church this week issued a guide for the proper use of the Internet and the role of the clergy in social media. His Beatitude, Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, noted, in a statement that “…our Church has a duty to use social media in order to communicate the…