Russia’s defense ministry on Wednesday released video footage it claims shows tanks and armored vehicles being transported from Crimea after a military exercise, the Black Sea peninsula that Moscow annexed in 2014. Heightened concerns, including a plea for peace and avoidance of violence by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, have risen around the world in…

The Church today venerates the memory of Pamphilios the Martyr & his Companions. Today is also the feast day of Flavianos, Patriarch of Constantinople.

On Monday 2/15 February 2022 the Patriarchate celebrated the feast of the Meeting of the Lord in the Temple. On this feast, the Church commemorates that our Lord Jesus Christ, who became incarnate through the Holy Spirit and Virgin Mary and was born in the flesh, after the completion of the forty days since His…

On February 13, 2022 – the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee and opening of the blessed Triodion period – His Eminence Archbishop Sotirios celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the historic Greek Orthodox Community of St. George the Great Martyr in Toronto; he was assisted by Protopresbyter Triantafillos Porfiris. During the memorial service, His…

At the annual meeting of the National Church Council Tuesday, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel said that the Romanian Orthodox Church is Romania’s most outstanding philanthropist in terms of social programs carried out last year. “It is essential to see the large number of works, and the sacrifice and generosity of our communities are also significant….

This week’s Sunday Sermon from the Department of Religious Education provides insight from the upcoming Gospel reading where Apostle Luke talks about the Prodigal Son who squandered his father’s inheritance on reckless living. When he returned to his father’s home, his father ran to him and went as far as throwing him a feast. Who…

I know that I express the feelings of all, when I say that we are happy to meet once again Mayor Eric Adams, a friend of our Archdiocese, and the Greek American Community. The Mayor and I first met in Brooklyn, when we marched together for justice. And I am proud to note that on…

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The pages of the Orthodoxia news agency this week host a feature and photographs of the historic and picturesque Monastery of the Panaghia Arethiotissa, known as the “Lady of the Marshes”, in the western Greece prefecture of Aetoloakarnania. The Catholicos, or main cathedral of the centuries-old monastery, is dedicated to the Nativity of Our Most…