April 1 became by law, adopted in 2011, a National Day honouring the memory of Romanians who were the victims of the massacres at Fântâna Albă and other areas, deportations, famine and other forms of repression organized by the totalitarian Soviet regime in Hertza region, northern Bukovina and the whole of Bessarabia. After signing the…

The Metropolitan of Transylvania said that the Christian family is in crisis. The solution is to resist sin through love and solidarity. He urged parents to encourage young people to keep chaste until marriage and called on mothers “to honour the blessed status God has given them at creation, namely to give birth to children.”…

On March 28, 2021, the second Sunday of Great Lent, His Grace Bishop Maxim concelebrated the Divine Liturgy at the Saint Sava Serbian Orthodox Church in San Gabriel, California with the parish priest V. Rev. Predrag Bojovic, Rev. Jovan Katanic, and Diocesan Deacon Vladan Radovanovic, together with the faithful of the parish On this Sunday…

A two-day procession with a wonderworking icon and the relics of great saints was held throughout the Romanian Archdiocese of Buzău and Vrancea over the weekend in honor of the great feast of the Annunciation of the Most Holy Theotokos. With the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Ciprian, the procession with the wonderworking Icon of…

With the support of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Al-Hosn Hospital in Homs, Syria, has received several pieces of new medical equipment. The hospital, under the patronage of the Antiochian Orthodox Patriarchate, treats about 20,000 patients annually. Artificial ventilation devices, X-ray equipment, and other medical equipment were delivered to the hospital by the Russian military…

They discussed the important topic of Reigious Freedom and the history of Nashville as the “Athens of the South.” The Archbishop presented the Governor with a commemorative coin celebrating the Bicentennial of the Greek Revolution and a silver icon of the Holy Trinity. On behalf of the State of Tennessee, the Governor presented a Proclamation…

Mayor Cooper, Madam Ambassador Papadopoulou, Fellow Greek-Americans and Philhellenes, Mr. Mayor, On behalf of the Greek-American Community of the United States America, and all those who love Greece, I want to thank you, and the Citizens of Nashville, for this special commemoration of the Bicentennial of the Greek Revolution. Furthermore, given the events of recent…

Soon, a supply of board games about the 1821 Greek War of Independence will be in the hands of Greek diaspora children all over the world. The Athens War Museum donated over 400 board games to the Foreign Ministry’s General Secretariat for Public Diplomacy & Greeks Abroad to be sent to young Greeks and children…

The online Orthodox platform Pemptousia, in cooperation with the Romania-based Bizanticons Arts Store, hosted the first synaxis – or assembly – with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi of Mount Athos, and friends of the specific establishment, on Thursday April 1, 2021. A simultaneous translation in English…