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The award-winning movie “Man of God”, based on the life and works of St. Nektarios of Aegina, will debut in Greek cinemas on Aug. 26. The Hollywood production was shot in the greater Athens area and on the island of Aegina, where St. Nektarios founded a renowned monastery, a place that attracts thousands of pilgrims…

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, this week received the Church of Greece’s Metropolitan of Edessa, Pella and Almopias, His Eminence Joel. An announcement by the Ecumenical Patriarchate said the Metropolitan conveyed to His All Holiness a Holy Relic of St. Kallinikos of Edessa.

News of the repose of Archbishop of Kinshasa and Central Africa Nikiforos caused sadness throughout the Orthodox world this week. The beloved hierarch and devoted missionary reposed in the Lord on Tuesday in the northern Greece city of Thessaloniki, hours after he was airlifted there from Africa. In a statement, the Patriarchate of Alexandria and…

A majority of deputies in Greece’s Parliament on Thursday voted in favor of a draft bill tabled by the education and religious affairs ministry, which, among others, merges the four tertiary-level supreme ecclesiastical academies in the country into two. The vote came despite stepped up opposition by several hierarchs of the Church of Greece, academics,…

The Church today venerates the memory of Kallinikos, the Martyr of Asia Minor.  

According to a recent tradition, the feast of the Equal-to-the-Apostles St. Vladimir the Great and the anniversary of the Baptism of Rus’ were festively celebrated with a Baptismal Divine Liturgy in the Neman River in Belarus.   The service was celebrated by Archpriest Anatoly Gerasimuk, the head of the local deanery, and other local clergy…

The World Council of Churches (WCC) recognized the International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC) as a specialized ministry partner. This recognition as a specialized ministry is the culmination of a long and productive relationship focused on service. Since its inception, IOCC has collaborated with the WCC on various emergency relief initiatives. IOCC shares with the WCC…

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