NEW YORK — Zoodohos Peghe Greek Orthodox Church hosted a special cultural event on Wednesday, September 21, commemorating 100 years since the Asia Minor Catastrophe. Free and open to the public, “Memories, Sounds, and Life,” aimed to share the enduring music, culture, and history of Asia Minor’s Greek population with the community in the Bronx….

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 Didimotycho, Orestiada & Soufli, His Eminence Damaskinos, made a pilgrimage this week to the Strumica region in the southeast corner of the Republic of North Macedonia, following the gracious invitation of the Archdiocese of Ohrid’s resident Metropolitan of Strumica, His Eminence Naum. Metropolitan Damaskinos made pilgrimages to several monasteries in the ecclesiastical…

The Metropolitan of Sweden and All Scandinavia, His Eminence Cleopas will inaugurate the new academic year for the Metropolis’ Sunday schools with a blessing ceremony on Sunday, at the Metropolitan Cathedral of St. George in Stockholm.

A visit by the Patriarch of Serbia, His Holiness Porfirije, to the Croatian capital of Zagreb, on the occasion of the feast day of the Nativity of the Theotokos, the All-Holy Virgin Mary, as based on the Julian calendar, coincided with the ordination of a new priest in the body of the Church and the…

The Patriarchate of Romania and the ministry of health in the country this week announced an agreement, finalized in the form of a signed protocol of cooperation, which allows for spiritual guidance to patients and their families by the Church’s ministers in Romanian state hospitals and clinics.

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America on Thursday welcomed visiting Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and National Shrine at the World Trade Center. The Greek Prime Minister and his entourage were also greeted by Santiago Calatrava, the main design architect of the shrine; the parishes clerics and laity,…

The Church today commemorates the Conception of St. John the Baptist. This came to pass 15 months before the birth of Christ, after the vision of the Angel that Zacharias, the father of the Forerunner, saw in the Temple while he executed the priest’s office during the feast of the Tabernacles, as tradition bears witness….

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