The Greek prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, on Tuesday announced that unvaccinated Greek citizens above the age of 60 in the country will be slapped with a 100-euro fine per month, until they receive the Covid-19 vaccine. In announcement the unprecedented measure, Mitsotakis said his government preferred this course of action instead of imposing another “lockdown”.

The Church today venerates the memory of Andrew the First- Called Apostle. On the occasion of today’s feast of the glorious St. Andrew the First-Called, a great Vespers was held on Monday at the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, officiated by the Ecumenical Patriarch, His All-Holiness Bartholomew I. On Tuesday, a Synodal Divine Liturgy was conducted…

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Archibishop Eplidophoros of America expressed his gratitude to the President of the United States of America Joe Biden for hosting His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartolomew to the White House by sending an official letter and in this tweet: Grateful to our President @JoeBiden for recently hosting His All-Holiness at the @WhiteHouse. Whether on matters related…

To commemorate the bicentennial anniversary since the beginning of the Greek War of Independence in 1821, Australian Post, in collaboration with the Holy Archdiocese of Australia, has issued a series of anniversary stamps. The series comprises four stamps, which depict four heroic clerical figures of our Orthodox Church, who fought for the freedom of our…

The Georgian Orthodox Church welcomes the government’s plans to ban online casinos in the country. The state has the responsibility to help in the upbringing of a “healthy generation,” and the “protection of young people under 25 from gambling will bring immediate results,” Archpriest Andria Dzhagmaidze, head of the Georgian Patriarchate’s press service, wrote on…

His Eminence Archbishop Makarios of Australia, accompanied by all the assistant Bishops, visited the Holy Monastery of Panagia Pantanassa in Mangrove Creek, New South Wales, on Wednesday, 24th November, at the invitation of the Abbot of the Monastery, the Very Reverend Archimandrite Elder Eusebius. His Eminence and the Bishops of the Holy Archdiocese of Australia…

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The online platform Pemptousia.tv — today, Monday, at 19.30 Athens time or 17.30 GMT — will host an online synaxis, or assembly, with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim of Vatopedi, on the topic of “Heartlessness: A Lack of Compassion”. The timely assembly will focus on our daily lives, people’s relations with one another and the family,…