The Bulgarian government has allocated more than $1.5 million to repair, restore, and complete churches and monasteries throughout the country. Out of the $1,546,130 (2.5 million Bulgarian lev), funds were earmarked for restoration work at the Bachkovo and Troyan Monasteries and for the renovation of St. John the Baptist Monastery in the village of Zhablyano,…
Dear friends, You are invited to participate in the “1st Digital Fellowship with Elder Ephraim, Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Vatopedi Mount Athos and the Orthodox Christian Network OCN”, which will take place Friday Dec 11, 2020 08:00 PM Athens time (1:00pm EST). Elder Ephraim will talk in Greek and we will offer real…
Decisions on when the retail sector will be reopened in Greece, as well as the framework by which Churches will again hold services in the presence of worshipers, especially ahead of Christmas, are expected from the Greek government by Saturday. Hierarchs of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece have repeatedly called for an end to…
The Council of Ministers of the Cypriot government on Wednesday announced additional measures to stem the spread of the coronavirus. According to reports, the island republic’s health minister presented the decisions and measures, which will be imposed immediately, given a recent and worrying spike in the number of coronavirus cases and related fatalities. As a…
An exodios funeral service was held on Thursday morning at the Holy Monastery of Rousanou, in the Meteora rock formation district of central Greece, for the convent’s reposed Mother Abbess, Filothei Kosvira. The Mother Abbess reposed in the Lord on Wednesday, at the age of 72, after a lengthy hospitalization in the nearby city of…
The Church today venerates the memory of the Holy Martyrs Menas, Hermogenes, and Eugraphus. This trio of saints received the crown of martyrdom in the year 235, during the reign of Maximinus.
The global project “Athonite Digital Ark” has been implemented by the OTE telecoms group, on behalf of the Holy Community of Mount Athos. The aim of the project is the preservation and projection of the cultural wealth of the autonomous Orthodox monastic community in northern Greece, through the digitization and documentation of its historical archives…
The online magazine Pemptousia on Thursday organized the first online Synaxis, or assembly, from Mount Athos with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, with Russian-speaking faithful from around the world. A simultaneous translation was available from Greek to Russian, and vice versa. The assembly comes after repeated…
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