The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill, on Thursday conveyed a message of compassion and fraternal support to His Beatitude Theophilos III, the Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and All Palestine, in view of another sinister attack by radicals against Christian sites in Holy Land. Among others, the Russian Patriarch…

Today marks the dour 24-year anniversary of NATO’s bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, after Albanian separatists waged a guerrilla campaign in Kosovo & Metohija to breakaway from Yugoslavia. According to reports from the period, roughly 2,500 civilians, along with 1,000 soldiers and police officers were killed in the bombing campaign. Infrastructure, businesses, health…

The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, a day after his return from a historic visit to the Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East, where he travelled to both Lebanon and Syria at the head of a Church of Greece delegation, on Friday will receive a four-member ecclesiastical and museum delegation…

Today marks the Forefeast of the Annunciation of the All-Holy Theotokos, a prelude of universal joy. Today is also the feast day of Righteous Artemon, Bishop of Seleucia. On the occasion, a segment showing services for the Forefeast of the Annunciation at the Holy & Great Monastery of Vatopedi, back in 2021, have been posted…

At 10.00 a.m. on Thursday, March 10/23, 2018, a Doxology was held in the Catholicon of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on the occasion of the national anniversary of March 25, 1821, as thanks to God for the national rebirth and liberation from the Turkish yoke and as a petition for the repose of…

On 16 March 2023, with the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios and under the guidance of His Grace Bishop Kyriakos of Sozopolis, GO Youth Melbourne under the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, held its second talk of 2023. The special guest for the night was Mr. Bill Pagomenos, committee member of the parish of…

An elected NSW Labor Government will provide $2.5 million to the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia to help it deliver new community facilities at its site in Redfern. The Masterplan to redevelop the Cathedral of the Annunciation of Our Lady includes the creation of a Great Hall, new conference and lecture facilities, as well as…

Thank you, Mr. President. And thank you, Senator Gianaris, for bringing this resolution forward. This year we are celebrating the 202nd anniversary of Greece’s independence after 400 years of subjugation by the Ottoman Empire. On March 25th, 1821, revolutionary fighters gathered together with Metropolitan Germanos in the Monastery of Agia Lavra in the village of…

On March 22, 2023, the New York State Assembly and Senate passed resolutions recognizing March 2023 as Greek History Month in the state of New York. In honor of this historic recognition, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America offered the invocation at each of today’s legislative sessions. His Eminence also met with Governor Kathy Hochul,…