A modern school building, which will serve as a Greek Orthodox primary school, has been completed in one of the most blighted corners of the world, and specifically in the slum of Kroo Bay, in the impoverished Sierra Leone capital of Freetown. The school building was built with donations from Greece and other countries. The…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s much-hyped pledges on Tuesday to boost human rights in the country, amid a crescendo of international condemnation over the recent period of his regime’s authoritarian rule, include a promise to revise the current framework governing non-Muslim religious charities and institutions in the country. Such institutions, known as Vakufs in Turkish,…

Taking into account that in previous days he was in contact with a priest, who turned out to have an asymptomatic form of COVID-19, His Holiness Porfirije, Serbian Patriarch, according to the doctor’s advice, will be preventively isolated in the following days.   — spc.rs  

The newly enthroned Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, His Holiness Porfirije , this week again revisited the issue of the province of Kosovo and Metohija, stressing that there’s no doubt that the latter is part of Serbia. “This not only the cradle of our people, but an ark filled with holy relics of our…

His Beatitude John X, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, received Mr. Alexander Rudakov, the Russian Ambassador in Beirut. The meeting took place in the Patriarchal Residence in Balamand and included an overview of the general situation in Lebanon and the region while confirming the historical relations between Russia and the…

March: Hellenic Heritage Month Let us all celebrate it The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Canada recognizes and joyously celebrates Hellenic Heritage Month. In December 2019, the Legislative Assembly of Ontario passed legislation that included a schedule proclaiming the month of March in each year as Hellenic Heritage Month in the Province of Ontario. This important…

Metropolitan Ioan of Banat donated over 250 kilograms of vegetables and fruits for migrants in transit through Timișoara. Flavius Ilioni-Loga, coordinator of the LOGS Group of Social Initiatives, which supports migrants who camp in the area, offered special thanks to His Eminence Metropolitan Ioan, but also to other faith communities in western Romania. “We thank…

The reposed in the Lord Metropolitan of Polyani and Kilkis Emanuel was interred on Wednesday at the Holy Monastery of St. George of the Hill, outside the northern town of Kilkis. An Exodios funeral service was held earlier at the Cathedral of the Transfiguration of the Savior in Kilkis, where clergy and the faithful paid…

A professor of Orthodox Spirituality at the Faculty of Theology in Cluj and the youngest Romanian hierarch, Bishop Benedict of Bistrița talked about his relationship with young people after a year in office. His Grace said that the year that passed since his ordination on February 23, 2020, was a time of his definition as…