Today marks the dour 19-year anniversary of a two-day pogrom against ethnic Serbs by ethnic Albanians in the Kosovo and Metohija province. Nineteen people were killed and more than 4,000 Serbs fled from their ancestral homes, with ethnic cleansing taking place in six towns and nine villages. Thirty-nine Orthodox Churches and monasteries were vandalized and…

The Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, on Wednesday welcomed the Parish priest and a delegation of laymen of the newly established Greek Orthodox parish in Darwin, located in Australia’s Northern Territory. The purpose of the delegation’s visit to the Holy Archdiocese in Sydney was to receive the blessing of the shepherd of the Greek…

Haverford College professor emeritus Alexander Kitroeff spoke to the Orthodoxia news agency this week on the inseparable bonds linking the ethnic Greek community in Egypt and the Greek diaspora in the United States with the Orthodox Church. Kitroeff, a noted historian specializing in modern Greek history, has ancestral ties to Alexandria. Among others, he referred…

The Church today venerates the memory of Alexios, the Man of God, as he came to be known to the faithful. On the occasion of the saint’s feast day, an all-night Vigil was held at the Holy Monastery of St. Lavra, in southwest Greece, with an archieratical Vespers and the Service of the Pre-sanctified Gifts…

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The Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, on Wednesday welcomed the ambassador of the Republic of Cyprus, Marios Kountourides, to the Patriarchal residence. The Cypriot envoy thanked His Beatitude for the warm welcome and conveyed a message of friendship and appreciation from the people of Cyprus, and especially from the newly enthroned Archbishop of…

Members of the Eparchial Synod of the Archdiocese of America will visit Constantinople on April 5, at the invitation of the Ecumenical Patriarch, His All-Holiness Bartholomew I. Chaired by the Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, members of the Holy Eparchial Synod convened in a regular session to examine various current issues, including the resignation…

The Archbishop of Canada, His Eminence Sotirios, this week received visiting Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias in Montreal. Greece’s top diplomat was accompanied by his Canadian counterpart, Mélanie Joly. Taking to his official Twitter account, Dendias on Wednesday emphasized that “…I visited the St. George Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Montreal with the Canadian foreign ministry,…

The Church today venerates the memory of Savinos, the Martyr of Egypt. Today is also the feast day of Christodoulos, the Wonderworker of Patmos. On the occasion, the Pemptousia platform has posted a feature today on the Holy Monastery of St. John the Theologian, located on the Dodecanese Island of Patmos, which was founded by…