Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou on Sunday attended ceremonies on the eastern Aegean Island of Symi, on the occasion of the 77th anniversary of the surrender of German occupation forces on the Dodecanese islands. The document of surrender was signed in Symi on May 8, 1945. In the afternoon, Sakellaropoulou conducted a pilgrimage visit to the…

The Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, on Sunday attended at the Divine Liturgy at the Monastery of Samurcășești, near Bucharest. In in his sermon, His Beatitude referred to the Myrrh-bearing woman, who represent the women entreating Christ’s Divine intervention in raising their children, remaining faithful wives and pious women of the Church.

The Metropolitan-Bishop of Montenegro & and the Littoral, His Eminence Joanikije, on Sunday led a litany of faithful and clergy in the streets of Podgorica, the small Adriatic country’s capital, on the occasion of the feast day of St. Mark the Evangelist, as based on the Julian calendar.

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, officiated at the Sunday of the Holy Myrrh-bearers Divine Liturgy, at the Catholicos of the Patriarchal and Stavropegic Monastery of Baloukli. In attendance for the Patriarchal Divine Liturgy, which was conducted with the centuries-old rite of the Mother Church, were the Archbishop of Thyateira and…

Former Greek prime minister Antonis Samaras on Sunday referred to the highly-anticipated television series on the life and works of 20th century St. Paisios, which led television ratings in Greece on the Thursday evenings in which it was broadcast over the past few months by the television channel Mega. Speaking at a party congress of…

The Church today venerates the memory of Isaiah the Prophet, and Christopher, the Martyr of Lycea. Today is also the feast day of the Elder Ieronymos of Simonopetra, with con-celebratory services held at the Mount Athos monastery’s glebe of the Cathedral of the Ascension, in the east Athens district of Vyronas. The Orthodoxia news agency,…

His Holiness Serbian Patriarch kyr Porfirije received His Excellency Christopher Hill, the Ambassador of the United States of America to the Republic of Serbia on 7 May 2022 in the Patriarchal See in Belgrade. In a friendly conversation, the first since Ambassador Hill took office in the Serbian capital, the situation in the southern Serbian…

n 8 May 2022, on Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women, His Holiness Serbian Patriarch kyr Porfirije officiated the Holy Hierarchical Liturgy in Belgrade’s church dedicated to this saint. His Holiness Porfirije was concelebrated by His Grace Bishop of Marča and Vicar of the Patriarch kyr Sava, Chief Secretary of the Holy Synod of Bishops Archimandrite…

The world-renowned Panagia Sumela Monastery in Trabzon, Turkey, saw thousands of visitors in just two days after it fully reopened to the public for the first time in six years. More than 5,000 tourists visited the monastery on Sunday and Monday, May 1 and 2, despite the rainy weather and fog, reports the Orthodoxia News…