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The annual Greek festival at Dormition of the Virgin Mary Cathedral in the Hamptons, the eastern-most part of Long Island, in New York, was held over the weekend, with a mass turnout by parishioners and visitors. Authentic Greek dishes were served, along with dance and musical performances.

The Feast Day of St. Paisios was commemorated over the weekend at the Pantokratoras Monastery in Beclean, northwest Romania. The Metropolitan of Cluj, His Eminence Andrei, presided at the Celebratory Divine Liturgy, assisted by several clerics. 

The new Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, arrived in Washington D.C. this week to attend and speak at the US State Department’s second Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, following his invitation by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Sam Brownback, the US Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom. The Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem,…

The Metropolitan of Kissamos and Selinos, His Eminence Amphilochios, this week issued a statement drawing attention to the fact that various promotional posters appear at the local Chania airport showing the domes of characteristic Greek Orthodox Churches with the Cross having been photo-shopped in order to disappear from the image. In a statement, His Eminence…

A new Parliament plenum will be convened on Wednesday, with newly elected deputies being sworn-in, immediately followed by the tabling of the new Mitsotakis government’s policy statements and a subsequent vote of confidence for the new government. As far as Church-state relations are concerned, during the recent campaign period, the new Greek premier, whose New…

The church has survived two fires, one in 1977 and one in 1986 that forced the entire church to be rebuilt. The Russian Orthodox Church of the Nativity culminated their 100th Anniversary Celebration on Sunday. The church, which was built on Erie’s bayfront in 1919, started as a place of refuge and community for Russian…

The New Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, on Monday paid a courtesy visit to the parliament of New South Wales in Sydney, where he was received by the resident of the New South Wales Legislative Council, John Ajaka. Following a tour of the legislature, given personally by Ajaka, who was accompanied by New South…

In 1918, 15 monks were brutally executed near Perm for refusing to join the Red Army. Their names have been remembered, and now the holy martyrs are commemorated by a memorial cross on the site of their murder. The cross was erected on June 17, the day of the Holy Spirit, in the village of…