A law affecting ecclesiastical archives, the archives of Monasteries of Mount Athos and other religious communities was finally published today in the government gazette. The new law essentially amends and replaces a 2019 law that was sharply opposed by the Church of Greece. The previous legislation provided the relevant minister of education and religious affairs…

Turkey’s culture and tourism minister this week announced that it will declare 2021 as the year of ancient Patara, regardless of the fact that the same ministry had dedicated 2020, the previous year, to the same site. In continuing a campaign o exploit Orthodoxy and Hellenic culture in order to attract tourists, all amid the…

The head of Greece’s experts committee established to combat the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, on Thursday’s called for a strict observance of measures and restrictions until at least March, in order to prevent the spread of the virus. Prof. Sotiris Tsiodras, a noted epidemiologist, made the statement during a briefing of members of parliamentary committee. Tsiodras…

The Church today venerates the memory of Isidore of Pelusium. This Saint was from Alexandria, and was a disciple of St. John Chrysostom. He struggled in asceticism in a monastery at Mount Pelusium, and later became abbot there. Isidore wrote thousands of epistles filled with divine grace and wisdom. He reposed on Feb. 4, 440.

Balamand, Lebanon, January 29, 2021. For the occasion of its Golden Jubilee of higher education, St. John of Damascus Institute of Theology at the University of Balamand was deeply honored to host His Eminence Hilarion, Metropolitan of Volokolamsk for a keynote lecture. Metropolitan Hilarion is a member of the Supreme Church Council of the Russian…

On the 30th of January 2021, the yearly Archdiocesan event, dedicated to the Three Hierarchs, successfully took place online, due to the circumstances of the Covid 19 pandemic. The main speaker was the Very Revd. Archimandrite Theonas Bakalis, Priest-in-charge of the Cathedral of the Divine Wisdom in London. Fr Theonas spoke on the topic of…

Archimandrite Athenagoras (Christos) Ziliaskopoulos was born in 1970 in Reutlingen, Germany, and grew up in Greece and Germany. He spent his young adulthood on Mount Athos as a monastic and learned to live a life devoted to Christ and the Church. He was ordained to the Holy Diaconate in 1997 and the Holy Priesthood in…

Not content simply to restore and rebuild village churches, the Common Cause project of the Russian Orthodox Church is also working to restore prayer in them. Common Cause was founded in 2006 as a project dedicated to restoring and rebuilding wooden churches of the Russian north that were neglected, repurposed, and destroyed during the long…

~ March 31 deadline for $5,000 communications grants ~ BOSTON – The Peter Agris Memorial Journalism/Communications Scholarships recently kicked off its 29th year of providing critical financial aid to aspiring Greek American journalists and communications specialists. The grants are provided through a collaboration between the Alpha Omega Council of New England and the Agris family….