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.

The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church was set to convene on Tuesday, with the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill, noting that the session will consider several  significant issues

Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine, His Beatitude Epiphanius, has requested help from the United Nations, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, the European Union, and all democratic countries, as he said. The Primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, in a statement, said “invaders in the Donbass region are expected to confiscate 36…

Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos II, on Tuesday morning officiated at a ceremony blessing the opening of a new round of training programs at the Holy Archdiocese of Athens’ Pastoral Training Institute. Foto: Christos Bonis 

Negative reactions against a provocative statement by Education and Religious Affairs Minister Kostas Gavroglu, who on Monday claimed that a portion of clerics in the country were “blackmailing” the government ahead of general elections in 2019, continued unabated on Tuesday. The association representing Orthodox clerics in Greece emphasized that “clerics never blackmail anyone … if…

Sunday, February 24, His Beatitude Patriarch Neophyte celebrates his 6th enthronement anniversary as Primate of Bulgarian Orthodox Church. Patriarch Neophyte (Bulgarian: Патриарх Неофит, secular name Simeon Nikolov Dimitrov; born 15 October 1945, Sofia) is the current head of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church from 24 February 2013. Prior to his election, he was the Metropolitan of…