The Pemptousia television platform will live-stream an All-Night Vigil tomorrow, Tuesday, from the Metropolitan Cathedral of St. Sava in Belgrade, on the occasion of the great Feast Day of the Presentation of Our Lord and Savior in the Temple, as based on the Julian calendar. In a post on his Instagram account, the Patriarch of…

Former Cypriot foreign minister Nikos Christodoulides was elected as the eighth president of the Republic of Cyprus on Sunday evening, following results of the second round of a presidential election on the east Mediterranean island republic. With all votes counted, Christodoulides received nearly 52 percent of the vote, compared to slightly more than 48 percent…

The death toll across Turkey and Syria following last Monday’s catastrophic earthquakes has exceeded 36,000. The death toll in Turkey reached nearly 32,000, the Turkish Emergency Coordination Center announced on Monday, while fatalities in northwest Syria exceeded 4,500, rebel groups in the devastated northwest corner of the country claimed. Another 1,400 deaths were reported in…

The Church today venerates the memory of the Apostles Aquila and Priscilla. Today is also Meatfare Monday, observed amid a period before the advent of the Great Lent for Pascha, Easter, on April 16.

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew attended, praying from the Holy Altar of the Venerable Patriarchal Church, the Divine Liturgy which took place on Saturday, 11 February 2023. At the end of the Divine Liturgy, a forty-day Memorial Service was held for the repose of the soul of the blessed Abbot of the Holy Stavropegic Monastery…

The students, as well as the teachers and the Administration of the Greek Orthodox College of Saint Spyridon, in Kingsford, Sydney, received the blessing of the Church in commemoration of the start of the new school year. The Agiasmos Blessing Service was conducted on Friday, 10 February 2023, by the Chancellor of the Holy Archdiocese…

In an atmosphere of spiritual joy and rejoicing, an Agiasmos Blessing was held in Melbourne for the beginning of the new school year at Oakleigh Grammar School. His Grace Bishop Kyriakos of Sozopolis, Archiepiscopal Vicar of Melbourne, visited the school’s facilities, specifically the Sports Centre, who, joined by the Proistamenos of the Church of Saints…

The Holy Archdiocese of Australia, with the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, took the initiative of carrying out a fundraiser in order to support the earthquake victims of Turkey and Syria, in view of the titanic struggle to stem the humanitarian crisis, which is already threatening millions of people living in the…

“Look what a wonderful thing it is to consider that, from the time when Homer spoke until today, we speak, breathe and sing in the same language. And this never stopped, whether we think of Clytemnestra speaking to Agamemnon, or the New Testament, either the hymns of Romanos or Digenis Akritas, or the Cretan Theater…