The Polish Orthodox Church issued a statement yesterday on the “Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence,” commonly known as the Istanbul Convention, noting that while it has praiseworthy elements, it also unfortunately departs from the Biblical conception of mankind, and thus the Church cannot support it. The…

UN Secretary-General’s Message for 2020 Genocide is the most heinous of crimes, encompassing all it touches in a tsunami of hate and destruction. It is an assault on our most fundamental shared values. Today, as we remember and honour the victims of the crime of genocide, let us remember that the imperative to prevent genocide…

On October 29, 2020, Mr. Irakli Savas delivered to HCHC, through President George M. Cantonis, the sum of $300,000 for the establishment of an irrevocable fund to be known as the Savas Seminarian Assistance Fund. The purpose of the fund is to help seminarians in need with housing expenses and other costs that are not…

In the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Chicago the Right Reverend Timothy Bakakos, Chancellor of the Metropolis of Chicago, was ordained to the Episcopacy on Saturday, December 5 at the Cathedral of Saints Constantine and Helen in Merrillville, Indiana. His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America presided at the service alongside Metropolitan Alexios of Atlanta, Metropolitan Nathanael…

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Young people from the Romania-based Orthodox association of “St. Meletios”, which caters to the hearing impaired, were presented this week with gifts conveyed by the Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, ahead of Christmas, including the edition “Stories from the Gospels, for Children and Parents”. The initiative is part of the “St. Nicholas in…

The Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, this week issued a message on the somber occasion of the passing of former US Senator Paul Sarbanes. His Eminence noted that “…it is very difficult to speak of Senator Sarbanes’ accomplishments, as they are virtually numberless; but through them all, he was a devoted husband and father,…

  The Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Most Divine Beatitude Theodoros II, on Monday bestowed the Holy Cross of the Apostle and Evangelist Mark to the head of Cairo’s Hellenic Cultural Center, Ioannis Fourtounas. The Primate of the Patriarchate of Alexandria praised the research work of Prof. Fourtounas, whose research has…

Tuesday marks the one-year anniversary of the repose in the Lord of Elder Ephraim of Arizona. The Elder Ephraim left behind a prolific spiritual and monastic legacy in North America — being a pioneer of Orthodox monasticism on the continent by helping establish numerous monasteries in the United States and Canada, and creating a spiritual…