Dr. Radu Tincu, a primary physician in Intensive Care and Toxicology, spoke at the 2023 International Meeting of Orthodox Youth (ITO) Conferences held in Timișoara, Romania, about the growing scourge of drug use among young people. On this occasion, he challenged five false claims about drug use. “I’ve wondered if drug addiction is just a…

Metropolitan Joachim of Bursa transmitted a message for the closing of the International Meeting of Orthodox Youth (ITO) 2023, held in Timișoara, Romania, between August 31 and September 3. His Eminence participated in the event personally, as the representative of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, and in the end left a message for the young participants, saying:…

His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia recently visited the Holy Monastery of Iviron, on Mount Athos, and presided over the Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos. Here is a video from the online channel “O Mirovlitis” with excerpts from the divine services that took place at the Holy Monastery of Iviron during the feast…

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America welcomed V. Rev. Archimandrite Philotheos Tomczewski upon his return to the United States after completing a year of intensive languages studies in Thessaloniki, Greece. Archimandrite Philotheos will resume his service to the Holy Metropolis of New Jersey under His Eminence Metropolitan Apostolos. goarch.org

On the morning of Tuesday, August 23/September 5, 2023, the Patriarchate celebrated the Apodosis Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos, i.e. the completion of eight days from the day of the feast, and the return of this icon, which was placed in Gethsemane before the feast. Therefore, on the morning of that day, a…

Although this is the third printing of the Life of Saint Joseph the Hesychast, it is however the first since his Glorification on March 9, 2020. The only change we made to the text of our blessed Elder Joseph is the replacement of the title ‘Elder Joseph Hesychast’ with ‘Saint Joseph Hesychast’. We also take…

On Monday, 4 September 2023, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew visited the Archaeological Museum of Pyrgos, which was the third day of his official visit to Ilia, Greece. His All-Holiness arrived at the Museum accompanied by His Eminence Metropolitan Athanasios of Ilia and Oleni and was guided around the exhibits by an archaeologist. vema.com.au  

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew visited the Holy Church of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary (Paleopanagia) in Manolada and Varda in Ilia, Greece, on Tuesday, 5 September 2023. He then visited the Church of St. Demetrios in Lechaina, the Castle of Chlemoutsi, where he was guided by the archaeologists in charge, and the Monastery…

Participants in the 2023 International Meeting of Orthodox Youth (ITO) held in Timișoara, Romania, walked the Friendship Procession on Saturday. The procession ended in the city’s Opera Square with a tribute to the heroes of December 1989, who drove out atheist communism by praying under bullets in the very same place. The Friendship Procession was…