2022 was a big year for the pro-life movement worldwide. The highlight was in the USA, where the Supreme Court overturned the decades-old decision Roe vs Wade that had read the US Constitution in such a way as to imply that abortion was considered a human right. This decision thus overrode all individual State laws…
The Executive Committee of Leadership 100 voted unanimously on February 13, 2023 to make a gift of $100,000 to the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese Earthquake Relief Fund, a fundraising effort announced by His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America on February 9 to provide humanitarian aid to the victims of the recent earthquakes in Turkey and Syria,…
On the weekend of February 4 – 5, 2023 the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of New Jersey, with the blessings of His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America, concluded its Annual regional Three Hierarchs/Greek Letters Day Celebrations with events for the Southern Virginia Region taking place at Ss. Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church in Newport News,…
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His Beatitude John X, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, received a phone call from Greek Foreign Minister His Excellency Nikos Dendias. His Excellency expressed his condolences and those of the Greek government and people for the victims of the devastating earthquake. The minister stressed that Greece stands by the Church of…
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…