ATHENS – The Saint Maxim the Greek Institute, with the support of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopaidi, is introducing the Evyenios Voulgaris Scholarship Program. Evyenios Voulgaris (1716-1806) served as principal of the Athoniada School, which had been established by the Holy Monastery of Vatopaidi. In his day, he was the greatest and most…

Established in 2014, Byzanfest is the world’s first and only online festival that screens short-films made by Eastern Orthodox Christian filmmakers. The Festival goes live from Sunday 21st July until 4th August 2019, running concurrently with live venue screenings which are hosted by Global Screening Partners. „As the world’s media and entertainment have become increasingly…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, on Monday visited the Monastery of Halki and the Orthodox seminary on the small Marmara Sea islet of the same name. The Patriarch’s visit came on the occasion of the Feast Day of Holy Myrrh-Bearer, Equal of the Apostles, Mary Magdalene. Following the Divine Liturgy,…

With great joy and feelings of deep emotion, the monastic brotherhood of the Holy Monastery of St. John the Forerunner of Mesa Potamos, Cyprus announces to the reading public that pre-orders of the book The Romanov Royal Martyrs: What Silence Could Not Conceal are now being accepted. An official video trailer for the book has…

The Russian Orthodox Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Washington, D.C. is under the protection of two great saints named John, and now it will enjoy the protection of a third. The church was founded by St. John the Wonderworker of San Francisco in 1949 and named in honor of the great prophet St….

Archaeologists, from the Kinneret Academic College and Nyack College of New York believe they have unearthed the Church of the Apostles that, according to Tradition, was built on the site of the home of the great apostles Sts. Peter and Andrew. The village of Bethsaida, where the brothers lived, is today part of the Bteikha…

The Church today venerates the memory of St. Pelagia of Tinos, who discovered the miracle-working but lost Our Lady of Tinos icon in 1822, on the eponymous Cyclades island months before the Greek Revolution erupted in 1821. The icon is conveyed from the iconic Our Lady of Tinos Cathedral, in the island’s capital, only on…

His Grace Bishop Irinej of the Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Eastern America met yesterday afternoon with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Ambassador for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback in Washington, DC. The meeting took place on the sidelines of the second annual Ministerial Conference on Religious Freedom at the initiative of the State…

National Youth Conference 2019 Yes (July 13-16) in conjunction with the Church Assembly of the Serbian Orthodox Dioceses in the USA First and foremost, we are grateful to those parishes who made the effort to fully sponsor one of their youth to come to such an amazing gathering. It is truly a joy when the…