Through the Grace of God, the first aid truck departed this morning from the Patriarchal Monastery of Our Lady of Balamand towards the Lebanese-Syrian border and from there to the Archdiocese in Aleppo. The Oikonomos of the monastery, the Rt. Rev. Archimandrite Georges Yaacoub, delivered the truck at the border to Father Minas Fahoum, representing…

A record number of delegates participated at this week’s annual World Fellowship of Orthodox Youth, held in cooperation with the Fellowship of Orthodox Youth of Poland, and with the blessing of His Beatitude Metropolitan of Warsaw and Archbishop of All Poland Sawa. The assembly was hosted this month at the Monastery of the Annunciation in…

Theodoros Nikolaou, a professor emeritus and founder of the Orthodox theology faculty at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich passed away this week. Prof. Nikolaou was served for many years as a lecturer of ecclesiastical history and patristic studies at the specific university, and was also the chairman of the specific department. He was honored…

The Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Beatitude Theodoros II, commenced a pastoral visit to Kenya over the weekend, where among others, he will celebrate his patronal name-day on Friday with the Orthodox flock in the country. Arriving in the desolate region of Turkana, the Patriarch of Alexandria dedicated a new school…

More than nine days after a powerful quake shook southern Turkey and northwest Syria, rescuers are still pulling people from the rubble, defying predictions that survival time has passed. Turkish authorities today released video showing rescuers retrieving a 77-year-old woman from debris in the city of Adiyaman, a day earlier, roughly 212 hours after the…

The Church today venerates the memory of Onesimus, the Apostle of the 70. Today is also the feast day of Our Righteous Father Anthimus, the Elder of Chios.

Humanitarian aid from Athens municipalities and the Attica regional authority for Türkiye and Syria have already filled 160 trucks, noted Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Andreas Katsaniotis in social media on Monday. The first consignment of this humanitarian aid will depart by ship on Wednesday, he noted. The public response to a call for humanitarian aid…

A Holy Relic of St. Daniel Katounakiotis of Smyrna was Translated on Sunday, 12 February 2023, to the Holy & Great Monastery of Vatopedi, where the Holy Relic was solemnly and reverently received by the Monastery’s Abbot, Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, and Vatopedi Fathers and Elders. The Holy Relic was conveyed by Hieromonk Fr. Nifon Katounakiotis,…

On Sunday, 12 February 2023, in the suburb of Brunswick in Melbourne, the cutting of the Vasilopita of the Central Pontian Union of Melbourne and Victoria “Pontiaki Estia” took place, by His Grace Bishop Evmenios of Kerasounta, Archiepiscopal Vicar of Northcote. His Grace Bishop Evmenios conveyed to the members of the association the wishes and…