Reports of almost daily kidnappings of members of Somalia’s tiny Christian community continue. Most of the victims are young and teenage girls, with gruesome details citing female genital mutilation and then forced marriages to Muslim men. Resistance to forced conversation is often punished by beheading. Strife-plagued Somalia, in the Horn of Africa, is, according to data,…

An ethnic Greek man who spent 30 years in the prisons of Albanian communist dictator Enver Hoxha, on charges of spying for Greece during the Cold War, passed away recently in the northwest city of Igoumenitsa. Loukas Christidis, a member of the ethnic Greek minority in the neighboring country, had detailed how he was tortured…

Municipal elections in Turkey on Sunday resulted in noteworthy losses for Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling AKP party, with the conservative and Islamist-flavored party losing the biggest cities in the country to political rivals.

Archbishop Ieronymos on Monday received the Orthodox Metropolitan of France, His Eminence Emmanuel, and the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s Metropolitan of Adrianopolis, His Eminence Amphilochios. According to reports, the meeting comes amid efforts to warm relations between the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece. Several major issues in inter-Orthodox relations have arisen…

Members of the Church of Greece’s permanent Holy Synod will convene on Tuesday, some 10 days after the Church essentially froze negotiations with the current government over the latter’s proposals to change Church-state relations. As previously reported by the Orthodoxia news agency, the Tsipras government is now examining three options.  –         Firstly, to try and find…

Reports of almost daily kidnappings of members of Somalia’s tiny Christian community continue. Most of the victims are young and teenage girls, with gruesome details citing female genital mutilation and then forced marriages to Muslim men. Resistance to forced conversation is often punished by beheading. Strife-plagued Somalia, in the Horn of Africa, is, according to data,…

An ethnic Greek man who spent 30 years in the prisons of Albanian communist dictator Enver Hoxha, on charges of spying for Greece during the Cold War, passed away recently in the northwest city of Igoumenitsa. Loukas Christidis, a member of the ethnic Greek minority in the neighboring country, had detailed how he was tortured…

Members of the Church of Greece’s permanent Holy Synod will convene on Tuesday, some 10 days after the Church essentially froze negotiations with the current government over the latter’s proposals to change Church-state relations. As previously reported by the Orthodoxia news agency, the Tsipras government is now examining three options.  –         Firstly, to try and find common…

On the Ukrainian Ecclesiastical Question. Second Reply Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana After the information (of March 26, 2019) that the Italian translation of the Patriarchal Letter of March 9, 2019 was inserted within the “category of texts of Dogmatic and Symbolic Theology” it was decided to make the related answer of the Orthodox Autocephalous Church…