The Archdiocese of Athens and the Youth and Family Foundation will host the online program “Perasma”, with the Mother Filothei, the Abbess of the Panaghia Vryoulon Holy Sanctuary, located due north of Athens, recounting the life, works and martyrdom of St. Filothei the Athenian. The program will be posted on Monday, Feb. 15, at 9…

The Sacred and Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, presided over by the Ecumenical Patriarch, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, will meet next week at the catholikon of the Monastery of the Mother of God, at the Spring of Valoukli.

Serbian history professor Sinica Misic this week charged that the international community is continuing to look away from the persecution inflicted on Orthodox believers and the attacks on Orthodox Christian legacy in the Kosovo and Metohija province. His comments came after the latest vandalism targeting the Hermitage of St. Peter in the Prizren. The desecration…

The Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece on Friday issued another encyclical to remind hierarchs, clerics and the flock of the need to faithfully follow all imposed public assembly and public health guidelines for worship in cathedrals and chapels. The encyclical reminds that this is a decision by members of the Church of Greece’s Holy Synod….

The Church today venerates the memory of Meletius, the fourth century Archbishop of Antioch.   Apolytikion of Meletius, Abp. Of Antioch Fourth Tone A model of faith and the image of gentleness, the example of your life has shown you forth to your sheep-fold to be a master of temperance. You obtained thus through being…

Tue. 16 Feb 2021 – 19:30 PM Athens EET Theme – LOVE NEVER ENDS – Elder Ephraim in dialogue with Romanian teenagers and young couples!   You are invited to participate in the ‘2nd e-Meeting with Elder Ephraim and Romanian Faithful‘, organized by the web magazine PEMPTOUSIA with the Blessings of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel of…

Bulgaria’s cabinet has allocated more than EUR 2 million to religious schools in this country for 2021. “These schools are extremely important for the ethnic tolerance and the peaceful coexistence of the ethnic groups. The religious schools preach peace, not war”, said Premier Boyko Borissov. The money will be distributed between the five religious schools…

On Sunday 7th of February 2021, the St Stephen’s Central Youth Committee of the Archdiocesan District of Adelaide organised a day retreat at the parish of St Nicholas, Wallaroo. The day got off to a beautiful start, with a Hierarchical Divine Liturgy presided by His Grace Bishop Silouan of Sinope. Concelebrating with him were the…

Recognizing there is a great need to develop relevant resources, programs and activities to keep youth and young adults engaged in the church, the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco has expanded the youth ministry office by establishing the position of Pastor of Youth and Young Adult Ministries. As of February 1, 2021, Rev. Father…