The customary blessing service for the commencement of the new academic year was held this week at the Greek National School in Vienna. The ceremony was officiated by the Archieratical Vicar of the Ecumenical Throne to the Metropolis of Austria, Fr. Ioannis Nikolitsis, the school deputy director, under the blessing of the Metropolitan of Austria,…

The 7th Congress of the Leaders of World and Traditional Religions ended this week in the Kazakhstan capital of Nur-Sultan. Among the participants was the Patriarch of Jerusalem, His Beatitude Theophilos III. A joint declaration, the main document of the congress, contained principles of religious pluralism and tolerance based on the equality of all people…

The Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Beatitude Theodoros II, on Thursday inaugurated a new school of the Holy Metropolis of Northern Madagascar, as he continued a pastoral visit to the large Indian Ocean island nation. A day earlier, His Beatitude was received by the President of the Republic of Madagascar, Andry…

A message to support for all efforts to force the Turkish state to allow the reopening of the Ecumenical Patriarchate’s Halki School of Theology was clearly conveyed this month from the 86th Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF), where a photographic exhibition focusing on the seminary was held. The exhibition was entitled “The Theology School of Halki:…

The Church today venerates the memory of Euphemia the Great Martyr.  

The two-day interreligious event kicked off this week in Kazakhstan’s capital of Nur-Sultan.Government officials and spiritual leaders from around the globe gathered this week in Kazakhstan for the 7th Congress of the Leaders of World and Traditional Religions. The interreligious event themed ‘The Role of the Leaders of World and Traditional Religions in the Spiritual…

Yesterday, September 14, marked the 20th anniversary of the repose of the great Romanian elder Archimandrite Sofian (Boghiu), who spent his life in monasticism and suffered for 15 years in a communist prison. His memory was solemnly commemorated with a full day of events in his hometown of Cuconeștii Vechi, Moldova, beginning with a memorial…

A new exhibition dedicated to the Holy Mountain will be traveling throughout America in the coming months. The display, “Mount Athos: The Ark of Orthodoxy,” opened at the Maliotis Center at the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese’s Hellenic College-Holy Cross Seminary in Brookline, Massachusetts, on Tuesday. The exhibition presents a reflection of a day on Mt. Athos,…

In a festive atmosphere, in the presence of a multitude of believers, even though it was a weekday and a working day, the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy and Life-giving Cross was celebrated in the Archdiocesan District of Northcote, Victoria. On the day of the Feast, on Wednesday, September 14, His Grace Bishop…