Seventeen years have passed since more 4,000 ethnic Serbs were expelled from the province of Kosovo and Metohija, following a series of attacks by Kosovar Albanian extremists, with  most of the displaced still prevented from returning to their homes to this day. Another 19 people were killed during the wave of violence, eight of them…

On the occasion of a national day in Greece against school violence and bullying, the Archdiocese of Athens’ Youth and Family Foundation will host an online discussion with Sunday school teachers, on the theme of “School bullying: confronting the phenomenon, causes, consequences – the role of the Sunday school teacher”. The online discussion will take…

Tonight our hearts rhythmically beat together as Australian-Hellenes. In recognition of our contribution to the hospitable seashores and land of Australia, the sails of the Opera House will reflect the colours of the Greek Flag on March 25, 200 years after the war independence commenced. His Eminence our Archbishop and Spiritual Father, our Bishops, Clergy…

The Orthodoxia news agency and the online platform Pemptousia on Friday will live-stream the Holy Services of the First Friday of Lent – the liturgy of the Salutations to the Theotokos, the Virgin Mary – from the Catholicos (main cathedral) of the Holy Monastery of Asteriou, beginning at 5 p.m. (15.00 GMT). Live-streaming services during…

The Patriarch-Catholicos of Georgia, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II, this week spoke on the significance of prayer and fast, in his message for the commencement of Great Lent. “We face many trials; pandemic, illnesses, hate; but we must not fear,” the Georgian Patriarch said, while underlining that with the Grace of God all obstacles…

The Greek government will reportedly ease certain pandemic-related restrictions on public assembly and non-essential movement outdoors in the coming days, with sources who spoke to the Orthodoxia news agency pointing to a decision to allow the presence of worshipers for Sunday Holy Services, with the day commemorated as Orthodox Sunday – March 21 based on…

A new edition published under the auspices of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, on Mount Athos, entitled “New Lenten Dishes and Sweets”, by author Katy Mantzaridou, has recently been unveiled. Just in time for the ongoing Great Lent, the special cookbook includes a variety of well-known and new recipes, including dishes prepared with…

  On Cheesefare Sunday, His Grace Bishop Jovan of Sumadia officiated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the church of Holy Archangel Gabriel (church of Vrbic), in Arandjelovac. The Bishop was concelebrated by diocesan dean of Orasac protopresbyter-staurophor Mico Cirkovic, diocesan dean of Oplenac protopresbyter-staurophor Miladin Mihailovic, protonamesnici Aleksandar Milanovic and Dejan Teodosic, protodeacon Ivan Gasic…

A new book presenting the first English translation from Russian of the correspondence between St. Sophrony (Sakharov) of Essex and Archpriest Georges Florovsky will soon be available from St. Tikhon’s Monastery Press. The Cross of Loneliness presents their correspondence from 1954 to 1963, translated by Deacon Nicholas Kotar, in which they discuss the “loss of…