The Holy Orthodox Metropolis in the central Albanian city of Elbasan, aided by dozens of faithful in the region, continued to support people in need throughout the district during the holy days of Easter. During Holy and Great Easter Week, 50 large food parcels were distributed to families in need.

The great feast day of the Theotokos of the Life-giving Spring was again solemnly commemorated at the rock-hewn monastery of St. Eleousa, built above the narrow Klisoura gorge, one of the most picturesque sites in all of Aetoloakarnania prefecture. The Metropolitan of Nafpaktos and Aghios Vlasios, His Eminence Ierotheos, the locum tenens of the Holy…

The historic standard of the Greek Revolution, which is reverently preserved at the Monastery of Aghia Lavra in the northwest Peloponnese, was joyously welcomed this week at the similarly historic Monastery of Dovra, near the northern city of Veria. Fore-feast services began on the Thursday of Bright Week for today’s feast day of the Theotokos…

The Ukrainian military on Friday said it was moving more troops to the country’s southwest border, near a Moscow-backed breakaway region in neighboring Moldova, known as Transnistria. Russian strikes on a bridge near the Ukrainian port city of Odessa have fed concerns that the Kremlin is looking to establish a pretext to use Transnistria as…

Today is Renewal, or Bright Friday, the fifth day after Great & Holy Easter. Renewal Friday commemorates the splendorous feast day of the Theotokos of the Life-giving Spring, which is located outside the imperial city of Constantinople.

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The Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain, His Eminence Nikitas, this week visited the celebrating Church of Ss. Raphael, Nicholas and Irene, in Enfield North District of North London, where he officiated at the Divine Liturgy. The service was co-officiated by Archimandrite Nifon and other parish clergymen. At the end of the Divine Liturgy, the…

An exact replica of the wonder-working icon of the Panaghia Vimatarissa is preserved at the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Annunciation in the Cretan town of Kissamos, with the blessing of the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy & Great Monastery of Vatopedi. The miraculous Holy Icon is preserved at the venerable Mount Athos…