The memory of our Holy Father Saint Daniel of Katounakia was celebrated with due splendour and with the appropriate reverence in the Holy Metropolis of Derkoi and specifically in the Holy Church of Saint George of the Makrochorion Community. On the eve of the feast, Vespers were celebrated, while on the main day of the…

On Thursday afternoon, 7 September 2023, on the eve of the feast day of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Great Hierarchical Vespers were celebrated with due splendour and with the participation of a large number of faithful at the Holy Monastery of Panagia Kamariani in Red Hill, near Melbourne. His Eminence Archbishop…

Five hundred and fifty-six meters above the Gulf of Morou, on the southeastern peak of Mount Nirito, the highest spot of Ithaca, is the Monastery of Katharon (or Kathara). It was built in 1696. The katholikon of the monastery, dated about 100 years earlier, is called Panagia Kathariotissa after the miraculous icon found there, and…

Dear Rabbi Gustavo (Kraselnik) – our host today, Your Excellency Archbishop Ulloa, Dear Sisters and Brothers, The Abrahamic hospitality of this fellowship today is such a cause of joy and gratitude for me, because your embrace of my presence here in wondrous Panama is an example of the best and the brightest in true interfaith…

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America arrived in Panama Wednesday evening, September 6, 2023 for an official visit. The Archbishop had been invited by His Eminence Archbishop Ulloa Mendieta of Panama for the 510th Anniversary of the establishment of the Diocese and Feast of Santa Maria La Antigua. During the five-day visit, Archbishop Elpidophoros will…

On Thursday, August 24 / September 6, 2023, His Beatitude our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos received Mrs Päivi Peltokoski, the Ambassador of Finland in Ramallah. At this meeting, His Beatitude spoke to Mrs Peltokoski about the Holy Places, which were promoted by Saint Helen, after the command of her son Constantine the Great…

The Holy Synod of the Church of Greece came out with a new warning on Monday about Scientology—a cult the Greek courts have characterized as “an organization with practices that are medically, socially, and morally dangerous and harmful.” According to the Greek hierarchs, Scientologists have been active in Greece for years under various names. Most…

In its statement yesterday, the Synod mainly addressed the question of the legality of the new IDs, saying that is a matter entirely for the state to handle, while nothing that the hierarchs will further address all the ramifications of the new IDs at a later date. The Synod’s statement reads in full: The Permanent…

The new Metropolitan of Paphos of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus condemned the new comprehensive, compulsory sex education courses in a letter read in all churches of his diocese on Sunday, September 3. The Cypriot government decided to implement the new programs in schools across the island beginning this academic year. In his new encyclical,…