Nearly 100 young adults attended the Christmas Enlightened Evenings celebration on Tuesday at a central London hotel. During the festive occasion, young adults holding Patriarchal flags made a video greeting for the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All-Holiness Bartholomew I, extending their best Christmas and New Year’s wishes to the Primate of the Mother Church….

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Thursday said barricades set up by ethnic Serbs in the Kosovo & Metohija province’s north will be removed when the latter forms an association of municipalities with majority Serb residents. The Serbian leader, who is on a visit to Azerbaijan, was quoted as saying that “…first form the Association of Serbian…

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias this week expressed the Greek state’s wholesale support for the semi-autonomous monastic community of Mount Athos, which is located on an eponymous northern Greece peninsula. Dendias made the statement on Wednesday as he was welcomed by representative Elders of the Holy Community’s rotating administration, in the Mount Athos capital of…

The Church today commemorates the 14,000 infants, the Holy Innocents, slain by Herod in Bethlehem. Today is also the feast day of Our Righteous Father Marcellus, Abbot of the Monastery of the Unsleeping Ones.

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The Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, spoke to the Piraeus Church’s radio station last week, and specifically during the program “Lessons from Athos”. The program was broadcast on Christmas Day.

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A funeral service was held on Wednesday for hiero-monk Anastasios of the Holy Cell of Dionysius of Fourna. The service was officiated by the resident Metropolitan of Ierissos and Mount Athos, His Eminence Theoklitos. Several hierarchs and clerics and many of the reposed hiero-monk’s spiritual children from around Greece attended the service. Interment will be…

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias on Wednesday began a two-day visit to the semi-autonomous monastic community of Mount Athos, located on a peninsula in the country’s north. Dendias was first welcomed by representatives of the Holy Community at the Cathedral of the Protatos, where a Doxology service was held. He later participated in an extraordinary…