“The environmental crisis concerns all of us, independent of identity, religion, nationality or culture,” noted Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on Friday, while inaugurating the new building of the Central Macedonia Region Authority in Thessaloniki. He underlined that what was required was an immediate, continuous and multiple mobilisation, adding that respect for creation is non-negotiable. “There is…

The Agioritikes Grammes shipping company has had to launch a new boat to take pilgrims to Holy Mount Athos from Ouranoupolis as the number of pilgrims continues to grow. The company’s ninth ship heading to the Daphne port on Mt. Athos from Ouranoupolis launched today with a capacity for 500 passengers and trucks, company president…

On October 15, 2019, after the Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of the Trinity in the St. Alexander Nevsky Monastery of the Holy Trinity, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia led a procession from the Cathedral of the Trinity to the monastery’s St. Nicholas Cemetery to the grave Metropolitan Nikodim (Rotov) (1929-1978),…

Under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture and Information, the National Library of Serbia, and the ‘Platoneum’ Publishing House, the prototypical edition of the Belgrade Parimejnik – the Serbian medieval codex from the first quarter of the 13th century – was presented in the crypt of the Saint Sava Temple in Vracar on October…

It has been widely reported that over the years, a large number of Christians are being persecuted in the African nation of Nigeria, a country that has an equal number of Christian and Muslim populations. Under the leadership of Muhammadu Buhari, the Preseindt of Nigeria, atrocities against Christians are on the rise at an unprecedented…

Saint Evdokimos is a great known unknown saint from the Monastery of Vatopedi. Father Meletios of Vatopedi, a witness of the happening, remembers: In 1840 the administrative body of our monastery seeing that the western wall of the ossuary of the Cemetery, which was under the main nave of the Chapel of the Cemetery, had…

Keynote Address of His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros at the Archdiocesan Council Meeting October 17, 2019 New York Midtown Hilton New York, New York Your Eminences and Your Graces, Mr. John Catsimatidis, Vice Chairman of this Archdiocesan Council, Distinguished Members of the Executive Committee and Members of the Archdiocesan Council, Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Today,…

Just like every year, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Canada held on Saturday, October 12, 2019, a Divine Liturgy and Memorial Service in honour of the Bishops, Priests and Deacons who served in Canada from the beginning until now, as well as for all the Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Donors and Beneficiaries of the…

The Supreme Court has upheld a decision of a lower court authorising the demolition of a chapel a man built on private land to fulfil a vow after his daughter overcame a health problem, Phileleftheros reports. It said that Paphos district officer had taken the man to court for building the chapel without securing a…