Baltimore, Md. (September 27, 2022) – International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC) announced today that with support from the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, IOCC will provide immediate assistance to people in Ukraine displaced by the conflict and receiving aid through six dioceses of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. IOCC’s response to the conflict in Ukraine…

Astoria, NY – September 19, 2022 – The Hellenic Film Society USA (HFS) has announced the lineup for its annual New York Greek Film Expo, a Greek film festival for all New Yorkers, to be held September 29—October 9, expanding to four theaters across the New York metro area. HFS will present 15 screenings of…

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The Pemptousia platform is a sponsor of a performance of excerpts of the trilogy “Great Hours”, by composer Andreas Katsigiannis, to be held at the Herod Atticus Odeon on Thursday. The performance is a collaboration with the State Orchestra of Athens. The excerpts will be interpreted by performers Glykeria, Dimitris Bassis and Jonathan Jackson, the…

Vatopedi publications has unveiled a new tome of homilies and addresses by the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, on Mount Athos. The work comprises an Athonite testimony of man’s course towards the light of God.  

The Metropolitan of Chios, Psara and Oinousses, His Eminence Markos, this week officiated at the sacrament of baptism of an adult into the Orthodox faith. The baptism of the new faithful of the Orthodox Church, who was raised a Methodist, took place at the early Christian Basilica of St. Isidoros, on the eastern Aegean Island…

Today, September 27th, marks the 191st anniversary of the assassination of the first governor of the modern state of Greece, Count Ioannis Kapodistrias, one of the pre-eminent European statesmen of the era. Kapodistrias was fatally shot by two assassins, members of the powerful Mavromichalis clan of Mani, at dawn on Sept. 27, 1831 as he…

Greece’s sovereignty over its Aegean islands is not in dispute, the US State Department reminded on Monday, in response to the latest new threats and war-mongering rhetoric launched by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan against Greece. A spokesperson for the US State Department noted the United States continues to encourage its NATO allies to work…

The Church today venerates the memory of Kallistratos the Martyr & his 49 Companions.