Despite the immense challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic and a generally hectic 2020, your prayers and financial support allowed Orthodox Christian Prison Ministry to adapt and continue to minister to those who are incarcerated and their families. Fr. John Kowalczyk, Director of Field Education Studies at St. Tikhon’s Seminary, federal corrections chaplain, and…

  The Leadership 100 Executive Committee, meeting virtually on Wednesday, February 17, 2021, approved $6,182,500 in new grants and prior year commitments. New grants approved totaled $1,887,100 and prior year grant commitments totaled $4,295,400. In addition, the Executive Committee unanimously approved a grant of $100,000 to initiate the celebrations of the 200th Anniversary of the…

Thursday, March 4th at 12:30 PM EST Together Pemptousia and OCN bring you the 2nd Digital Fellowship with Elder Ephraim and the myOCN Community. Thursday March 4th, 2021 at 12:30 PM EST/ 07:30 PM Athens time. Families Welcomed. Register to receive login and watch the recorded programing. To Register: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMsfuquqzsrH9VpPNRwArV2dnF96RzSm6wx   goarch.org   

  This year the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the United States of America, in tandem with American Scouting organizations, celebrates February 7th and March 7th, 2021 as Scouting Sundays. As Orthodox Christians across the country participate in The Year of the Youth, proclaimed by the Assembly of Bishops, special focus is placed on…

  Your Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros, Reverend Fathers, brothers and sisters in the Lord, Standing before you and in the presence of our all-seeing Lord, I am struck by the enormity of the task before me. To stand before the Holy Altar Table of our Lord as his διακονος, as His servant seems to me to…

  Stewardship Ministry Profiles: Holy Trinity Church – Pittsburgh, PA Fr. John Touloumes arrived at Holy Trinity in August 1993 with a mandate from then Bishop (later Metropolitan) Maximos: Transition the parish of almost 200 families from dues to stewardship. Within four months, the team built its stewardship ministry – in Greek and English –…

  Members of the Church of Greece’s Standing Holy Synod on Tuesday, during a session chaired by the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, were informed that the Greek government has responded in the affirmative to a request for extraordinary state support towards ecclesiastical foundations’ civil employees. The request by the Church…

A Trisagion memorial service for reposed in the Lord Metropolitan of Polyani and Kilkis Emanuel was held on Tuesday morning, officiated by the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos. The memorial service was held amid the first day of this week’s three-day sessions – via teleconference – of the Church of Greece’s…

The persistent efforts of an Orthodox missionary priest in Tanzania are bringing to fruition a budding new parish in sub-Saharan Africa. The new parish of the Holy Trinity in Niakagera, in Tanzania, is a life’s work of Fr. Chysostomos, the parish priest of the church of St. Demetrius Ibaba. A Divine Liturgy has already been…