The new center-right Greek government that arose from the July 7 election is reportedly considering the possibility of suspending the implementation of numerous revisions to the country’s penal code, which were passed by a slim Parliament majority days before the plenum was dissolved ahead of the election. The revisions were proposed, tabled in Parliament…

The mosaic crucifix showing Christ flanked by Virgin Mary and Saint John the Theologian is ready to be applied above the iconostasis of the National Cathedral in Bucharest. The five-metre mosaic cross was initially painted by the team of artists coordinated by iconographer Daniel Codrescu. The cross that will tower over the Cathedral’s 18-metre unique…

His Grace Bishop Irinej served the Divine Liturgy on Monday, the feast day of the Deposition of the Robe of the Most Holy Theotokos. As His Grace noted at the conclusion of the Divine Liturgy, both Constantinople and Belgrade are cities dedicated to the Mother of God and therefore this feast day is uniquely shared…

A series of new monuments was opened in Sergiev Posad on July 18, including Russia’s first monument to the outstanding scientist and thinker Fr. Pavel Florensky. Busts of Monk-Martyr Kronid (Lyubimov) and St. Elizabeth the Grand Duchess and New Martyr, spiritual companions of Florensky, with whom he shared part of his life and death, were…

An ancient icon was recently unearthed during archaeological excavations at a Moldovan fort originally built by St. Stephen the Great in the 15th century. A team of students from the History and Geography Department of the Ion Creangă Pedagogical State University in Chişinău discovered a 16th-century bronze icon of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker while searching…

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A feature is posted today on the pages of the Orthodoxia news agency devoted to the Orthodox Nun Nektaria, whose life’s work involves saving and caring for orphans and impoverished children in the wider Kolkata area in India. An orphanage founded by Nektaria and other Orthodox nuns today houses 140 children, whereas the affiliated St….

The Greek Orthodox community in Australia this week marked the 45th anniversary of the bloody Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974. A Divine Liturgy was held in the Orthodox Church of the Sts Raphael, Nicholas and Irene in the Adelaide suburb of Athelstone, in South Australia.