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Sessions of an annual ecclesiastical conference on charity opened on Tuesday in Moscow, with the Blessing of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill. The conference marks the biggest social forum annually organized and hosted by the Russian Orthodox Church, with some 1,500 participants from the vast country and other nations in…

The Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, praised the work of the Estia care center for people with special needs, during a visit to the facility in the Sydney suburb of Gladesville. The Estia center is operated by the Archdiocese of Australia.      

The Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, over the weekend announced to participants at an inaugural national conference on Greek education in the United States that every Greek Orthodox community in the country will have a Greek school. The conference was organized and held in Flushing, NY by the Archdiocese of America. His Eminence stressed…

The tradition of enthronement of St. John Chrysostom on the Patriarchal Throne is upheld to this very day at the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople every Nov. 13. During the specific day, the Ecumenical Patriarch does not ascend onto his throne, but officiates from the “Parathronion”, an adjacent smaller throne, during both the Great Vespers and…

Sessions of an international conference on religious diplomacy, entitled “Religion in the Contemporary World: Challenges and Prospects for Dialogue and Peace”, concluded this week. The conference was held under the auspices of the Archdiocese of Athens, the Greek ministry of foreign affairs, the Greek Foreign Affairs Magazine, and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens….

The Metropolis of Ilia, in southwest Greece, this week announced an initiative to host several single-parent families of asylum seekers and unaccompanied third country minors, mainly Syrian nationals – by their declaration – who landed onto a handful of Greek isles from neighboring Turkey. The Metropolis, which extends over the same-name prefecture in the Peloponnese,…

The Archbishop of Crete, His Eminence Irineos, this week expressed his sadness over a last-minute decision by the Greek government not to reintroduce the offense of malicious blasphemy of religion and insult to religion in the country’s penal code. In a statement released by the Archdiocese of Crete, His Eminence noted that a sober and…

The Church today venerates the memory of St. John Chrysostom, the Archbishop of Constantinople. The greatest and most beloved of all early Christian orators, St. John was born in the ancient Near East city of Antioch in the year 344 or 347. St. John was surnamed Chrysostom, which means Golden-mouth in Greek, because of his…