His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has expressed condolences to Federal Chancellor of the Republic of Austria Sebastian Kurz over the death of people as a result of the terrorist action in Vienna. His Excellency Sabastian KURZ Federal Chancellor Republic of Austria Your Excellency, I am deeply grieving over the killing and…

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  The second part of an online address by the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, entitled “Lessons from Athos”, has been posted on the pages of the Orthodoxia news agency. The address was part of events for the 2020 Demetria events at the Cathedral of St. Demetrious…

  The President of Belarus, Aleksandr Lukashenko, on Monday received the new Metropolitan of Minsk, Za-slavl, & Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus, His Eminence Veniamin. During the meeting, the Belarus leader stressed that the state will always be committed to inter-religious peace in the east European country. He added that the Church, and especially the…

  Voters in the United States head to the polls today to vote for, among others, a new US President. Incumbent Donald Trump is the candidate for the Republicans, while former US vice-president Joe Biden is the contender for the Democrats. Both men cited US-Greece relations, the Greek-American community and issues faced by Orthodoxy in…

Four people were gunned down in central Vienna on Monday evening by a terrorist, who himself was then shot dead by police. Austrian authorities described the 20-year-old man as an “islamist terrorist” who had previously served prison time on terror-related convictions, while adding that perpetrator was born and raised in Vienna and was of ethnic…

  The latest series of public assembly restrictions and partial lockdown measures, all aimed to prevent exposure to the coronavirus pandemic, went into effect in Greece on Tuesday. At present, a lockdown status has been applied to the greater Thessaloniki area in the north, and the adjacent Serres prefecture, due to a significant spike in…

  The Church today venerates Acepsimas the Bishop, Joseph the Presbyter & Aeithalas the Deacon, Martyrs of Persia.

  By prior arrangement, a telephone conversation took place between His Beatitude Chrysostomos II, Archbishop of Nova Justiniana and All Cyprus, and His Beatitude Epiphaniy, Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine. The Primate of the Local Ukrainian Orthodox Church, personally and on behalf of the fullness of Church, expressed his gratitude for the accession of…