With the blessing of the Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, Ilia II, on December 31, January 1-2 it is allowed to eat fish while keeping Nativity Fast, – Archimandrite Demetre made this statement during the traditional Sunday Sermon in the Holy Trinity Cathedral. After the liturgy, the Metropolitan of Chiatura and Sachkhere, Archbishop Daniel, preached and…

Mathew 14:19 “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” As the norm initiated by His Eminence Metropolitan Jonah Lwanaga, every year on the 26th of December (literally referred to as the Boxing Day) immediately after celebrating the feast of the…

May 12 was declared the national holiday to mark the Day of Georgia’s presence under the auspices of Virgin Mary. The decision was made at the session of the Holy Synod of the Georgian Orthodox Church on December 27. “The Synod heard the report of the Metropolitan Daniel of Chiatura and Sachkhere about the Apostolic…

Father Alexander Leong, although he is the presiding priest of Sts. Constantine and Helen Cathedral of the Pacific in Honolulu since 2013, he does not speak much Greek. As he told The National Herald, in recent years the church has members of various nationalities, “Our church started operating in 1965 and has 20 families. Here,…

Saint Sophia’s Greek school keeps up its long-standing educational work in the Greek Community of Great Britian. The pupils start at the Preschool/ Nursery class and continue their Greek education through Primary school. Most of them stay on to the GCSE and AS/A Level Years. During the last three years, the number of students who…

According to a recent interview with HRH Prince Charles, one can imagine that the sounds of a Russian Orthodox service are heard across Buckingham Palace once in a while. The heir to the throne said that a Russian opera singer had performed an Orthodox liturgical song at his 2005 wedding as a gift from the…

President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopios Pavlopoulos spoke on the phone with Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Ieronymos to express his full sympathy following the bomb explosion outside the Church of Aghios Dionysios in Kolonaki, central Athens on Thursday, December 27, 2018. Source: ANA-MPA news Photo: Christos Mponis

One of the places where Christmas was celebrated on Tuesday is Maaloula, a small town near Damascus, where residents still speak Aramaic, the language used by Jesus Christ. Maaloula is located in a mountainous area near the Syrian capital, where two ancient Christian monasteries also stand. Some of the damage can still be seen at…

Russians trust the army and the church the most, of all state and public institutions, according to the results of a survey done by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM). According to the survey, the army is supported and approved of by 86% of the respondents, which is almost 20% more than in December…