Youths from the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania’s Metropolis of Elbasan this week visited the historic Monastery of Decani, in the Kosovo & Metohija province, with the blessing of the Metropolitan of Elbasan, His Eminence Anthony. The pilgrimage visit’s goal was to acquaint young people of the Albanian Church with one of the largest and…

More than 2,500 pupils in the Vulcea country of Romania have received school supplies donated by the Archdiocese of Rimniku.

The Holy Monastery of Hilandar of Mount Athos continues to support university students in Serbia. The Abbot of the venerable monastery, the Elder Archimandrite Methodios, recently presented a scholarship to Biliana Tsekic, who starred in the role of young Dara in a production recounting the horrors of the Jacenovac concentration camp during WWII, where the…

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The inauguration of a chapel dedicated to Platon, the new Hieromartyr of Patmos, was held on Wednesday on the same-name island of the eastern Aegean. Building of the new chapel had been overseen by the reposed Abbot of the Stavropegic Monastery of St. John the Theologian, Bishop of Tralleon, Isidoros.          

The Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, on Wednesday met with representatives of the Greek Diaspora in New York City, in the presence of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. The latter is visiting the metropolis on the occasion of the 77th UN General Assembly. Mitsotakis is due to address the General Assembly’s plenum on Friday….

On Thursday, September 22, His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, participated and represented Orthodox Hellenism of the fifth continent in the National Memorial Service for HM Queen Elizabeth II, which took place at the Australian capital, as part of the National Day of Mourning for the loss of the former monarch of the Commonwealth. The…

Archimandrite Georgios Kapsanis, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Gregoriou † After his rebuke to Peter, the Lord asked of his disciples that they, too, should lead their lives bearing a cross. He says that those who wish to follow him must deny themselves, take up their cross and follow him (Matth. 16, 24). To…

A rare, handwritten Gospel stolen during the First World War from the Holy Monastery of Eikosiphoinissa, in northern Greece, will officially be repatriated later this month, with a hand-over and reception ceremony set for Thursday, September 29 2022. The date was not chosen at random, but coincides with the day of remembrance for victims killed…