The Metropolitan of Fthiotida, His Eminence Simeon, this week visited a shelter for asylum seekers near Thermopylae, in south-central Greece. The shelter temporarily hosts 149 minors and their parents. His Eminence was briefed by the shelter’s management over its operation and toured the facilities, including a chapel dedicated to the Holy Unmercenaries, and a shrine…

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Wednesday underlined that a delegation of Kosovo Albanian leaders, who had arrived a day earlier in Brussels for a new round of talks between Belgrade and the latter, were absolutely not interested in any dialogue. Speaking to reporters about Tuesday’s resumption of such bilateral contacts, Vucic said he would address…

The Church today venerates the memory of Isaurus the Holy Martyr & his Companions of Athens. Today is also the feast day of Manuel, Sabel & Ishmael, the Martyrs of Persia.

The Archdiocesan Office of Greek Education kindly invites you to the online talk by Protopresbyter Joseph Paliouras, Priest in charge of the church of the Twelve Apostles in Hertfordshire, on Monday the 21st of June at 18:00. Fr Joseph’s talk will be titled ‘The Greek language and the Hymnology of the Church.’ Your online presence…

Attending physicians have been able to stabilize the condition of the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim with stepped up medication, after a sudden deterioration in his health in the early morning hours of Wednesday. The beloved Elder remains in an intensive care unit (ICU) at the public Evangelismos Hospital in central Athens for a 14th straight day….

On June 9th, 2021, on the eve of the feast of the Ascension of the Lord, the rector of the church of St. Zinaida of Rio de Janeiro Hegumen Innokenty (Denshchikov) had a meeting with the Patriarchal Vicar of the Orthodox Church of Antioch in Rio de Janeiro, Bishop Theodore Ghandour. The meeting was also…

A formal petition for the glorification of Elder Eumenios (Saridakis) among the saints was submitted to Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople by the Synod of the Church of Crete last week. Metropolitan Eugenios of Rethymnon and Avlopotamos was in Istanbul on Friday, June 11, to greet the Patriarch on his name’s day on behalf of the…

Construction on the Church of St. Joseph the Hesychast at Madagascar’s first male monastery was completed one year ago. And on Saturday, June 12, the church was consecrated by Bishop Prodromos of Toliaras and South Madagascar Bp. Prodromos himself had laid the foundation stone for the church, together with the then newly-formed brotherhood, in December…

Today, June 16, 2021, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America convened the Holy Eparchial Synod via video conference for a regularly scheduled meeting. As this was the Synod’s first gathering following the Great and Holy Feast of Pascha, the meeting opened with a customary exchange of fraternal greetings and festal wishes between the synodal members….