Α conference on the issue of “Ecclesiastical and Religious Diplomacy”, organized by the Greek foreign ministry, will begin on Thursday. Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos II, will briefly address the conference, as will Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. Several well-known representatives of other faiths, Church hierarchs and Mt. Athos Elders…

  The coming period is deemed as crucial in Church-state relations in Greece. The latest reports point to an attempt by the Greek government to defuse tension, after strong reactions by a portion of Orthodox clerics in the country to any attempt to alter the standing payroll system. The Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece’s hierarchy…

 Today marks the 21st anniversary of the passing of Elder Efraim of Katounakia. The Orthodoxia news agency today devotes extensive coverage to the life, faith and teachings of the beloved and sanctified Mt. Athos monk.

While there are already churches dedicated to the great 20th-century ascetic St. Paisios the Athonite, the Holy Mountain itself now has its first consecrated church built in his honor. The church was consecrated by His Eminence Metropolitan Panteleimon of Xanthi on Sunday, February 24th. The church is located in Kapsala, in the area between Karyes…

Deputy Education Minister Meropi Tzoufi opened an event in Athens on Tuesday at the Italian Education Institute on the teaching of ancient and modern Greek in Italy.

Noted investigative journalist and author Nicholas Gage-Gatzoyiannis has been re-elected as the president of Pan-epirotic Federation of America. In a statement afterwards, he referred to the US-based group’s solidarity to the ethnic Greeks that live in Northern Epirus, in the south of Albania, who continue to experience harassment by Albanian authorities, as he said, as…

A national association of cultural groups in the Macedonia province has conveyed its strong displeasure to the BBC, over a recent article on the media outlet’s website, entitled “Greece’s invisible minority – the Macedonian Slavs.” In its protest letter, the association calls on the British broadcaster to restore historical truth.

A one-day seminar was organized by the Holy Archdiocese of Demetriados, in central Greece, on the issue of suicide prevention. The seminar was geared towards the Church’s confessors and spiritual guides.

Heartbreaking reports continue to emerge from North Korea regarding the persecution of Christians. Reports from the isolated Far East country refer to some 60,000 Christians being held in concentration camps, along with an unknown number of executions also reported.