Greek Alternate Foreign Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis described Sunday’s National Remembrance Day for the Genocide of Asia Minor Greeks as a day for recollection and reflection, while calling on official Turkey not to falsify history, as he said. The Greek minister added that “…historical memory is helpful not only when it hurts but also when it…

A vigil was held on Sunday evening at the St. Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral in Kampala, Uganda before today’s exodios funeral service for the reposed in the Lord Metropolitan of Kampala Jonah. The body of the beloved hierarch arrived back in Uganda on Saturday, where numerous faithful assembled to bid farewell to the hierarch who brought…

The film “Man of God” has exceeded ticket sales of more than 225,000 in Greece since its premiere on Aug. 26, setting box office records in the country. The film, by director Yelena Popovic, recounts the life and works of early 20th century St. Nektarios of Aegina. Popovic this week was quoted on the Greek…

Montenegro Prime Minister Zdravko Krivokapić on Saturday arrived for a pilgrimage to the semi-autonomous monastic community of Mount Athos, in northern Greece. The Montenegro premier also attended the opening of a new consulate of the Adriatic country in the northern Greece port city of Thessaloniki on Friday, where he underlined that St. Demetrius, Thessaloniki and…

The Church today venerates the memory of Eustathios the Great Martyr, his wife and two children.

Members of the Tronos Psaltic Group from the Romanian Orthodox Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest performed Byzantine chant live at St. Vladimir’s Seminary on Wednesday. The Romanians led by Archdeacon Mihail Bucă were joined by the Seminary’s Byzantine choir and sextet led by Dn. Nicholas Fine and Dr. Harrison Russin, assistant professor of liturgical music. “We…

His Holiness Porfirije, Serbian Patriarch officiated the solemn rite of the proclamation of High Venerable Archimandrite Damaskin (Grabez) for Bishop of Mohacs, Vicar of Bishop of Backa in the old Cathedral church of Holy Archangel Michael in Belgrade on 18 September 2021 (photo gallery). Besides the primate of the Serbian Orthodox Church, in the rite…

His Eminence Metropolitan Sergi of Nekresi, 62, of the Georgian Orthodox Church has reposed in the Lord. He served the Church in the episcopal dignity for 29 years. The Metropolitan’s health was complicated by a COVID infection. He was treated in the hospital for several days before his repose, reports the press service of the…

Another church has been built and consecrated in honor of the great 20th-century confessor and holy hierarch St. Luke the Blessed Surgeon of Simferopol, this time in in the heart of the African nation of Kenya. The Russian hierarch is one of the most beloved saints in the Orthodox world today, highly venerated as a…