Watch our news bulletin in English with Charilaos Tzanis: Watch Pemptousia TV Live HERE

The splendid ecclesiastical calendar of the Holy & Great Monastery of Vatopedi for 2023 is now available. The 2023 Vatopedi calendar showcases the ecclesiastical frescoes found at the venerable Mount Athos monastery.

The Pemptousia platform on Wednesday, Dec. 21, will host the last online archontariki, with Fr. Nikolaos Loudovikos speaking on the issue of “psychoanalysis and Orthodox theology: An introduction”. The session will begin at 19.30 Athens time, or 17.30 GMT.

The memory of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, Archbishop of Myron, was celebrated on Monday at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in the Hajnówka region of Poland, as based on the Julian calendar. The Orthodox Bishop of Hajnówka, His Grace Pavle, officiated at the Divine Liturgy, and later spoke on the life and miracles of the saint….

The Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, addressed a second monastic synaxis, or assembly, held over the weekend at St. Anthony’s Greek Orthodox Monastery in Florence, Arizona. Among others, His Eminence noted that “…the Elder Ephraim and his disciples and spiritual children all over the world authentically convey the Orthodox hesychastic tradition of St. Joseph…

The Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, received several children’s’ choirs on Monday at the Patriarchal residence, who sang Christmas carols for the Primate of the Romanian Church and other hierarchs. His Beatitude presented the children with presents and wished all a very Happy Christmas.

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, issued a Christmas message of peace this week, even amid the drums of war still sounding in Ukraine. His All Holiness’ message read, among others, “…never in the history of humanity has peace between peoples been a self-evident situation, but was always and everywhere a…

Influential US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez on Monday again slammed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who recently threatened a missile strike on Athens, Greece. “I come to the Floor today to condemn the recent actions of the Turkish President, which are not only disturbing – they are totally unacceptable,” Menendez said. The…

The Church today venerates the memory of Ignatius the God-Bearer, Bishop of Antioch.