12 members of Greece’s presidential guard, known as Evzones, will travel to Adelaide, Australia for events to mark Greek Independence Day, according to the Foundation for Hellenic Studies.

Proto-Exarchos Alexis, the director of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch’s department of Ecumenical Relations and Development, this week said Orthodox Christians in Syria are depending on the support of Russia for the reconstruction of Churches and monasteries destroyed by jihadist terrorists, during the eight-year war in the Mideast country.

The Serbian Orthodox Church this week delivered its position on the issue of autocephaly for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, in a letter addressed to the world’s recognized Orthodox Churches. The Serbian Orthodox Church’s Patriarchate notes that it does not recognize the autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, while listing the reasons for its decision. In…

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill, this week stressed that “we are all brothers in faith, we belong to the one and indivisible Orthodox Church”, in greeting Greek pilgrims to the Monastery of the Savior in Moscow.

Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos II, on Thursday received a newly appointed deputy minister for migration policy, Angelos Tolkas.  In his comments, the new deputy minister praised the work of the Church and its affiliated charity, “Apostoli”, in dealing with the migrant/refugee crisis, which erupted in the eastern Aegean in 2015….

  The issue of autocephaly for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church will not be on the agenda of next week’s extraordinary meeting of the Church of Greece’s permanent Holy Synod. According to information gathered by the Orthodoxia news agency, a report on the matter has not been completed by members of relevant committees established by the…

‘After every troparion of the Great Canon of Repentance of Saint Andrew of Crete we have this calling, this insistent supplication, as a breath of the Church: Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me,’ Patriarch Daniel said at the end of the Great Canon officiated at the Patriarchal Cathedral on Clean Monday….

IN THE NAME OF THE HOLY AND LIFEGIVING TRINITY! We, the clergy, monastics, and representatives of the people of God, ordained and elected members to the Annual Assembly of the Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Eastern America, Serbian Orthodox Church, have gathered together at the Church of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker in the God-protected City of…

On Ash Wednesday morning of the First Week of the Holy and Great Lent, Matins with the Hours and the Divine Liturgy of the Pre-Sanctified Gifts were officiated with the participation in prayer of H.H.B. our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos. Participants in the prayer were the Hagiotaphite Archbishops, Priests and Monks, under the…