Ionian Village, the Archdiocese’s summer camp site in the northwestern Peloponnese, sustained damage on Monday, October 13, 2020. A tornado ripped through the facility, causing most significant damage to the cafeteria (“Trap”) and the pool. Several trees behind the cabins were uprooted and launched hundreds of feet. No one was on site during the tornado,…

In the framework of the last two appeals launched by the Middle East Council of Churches consequently to the Beirut Blast, the Diakonia department’s team provided a new batch of relief supplies to presidents in the member church to be distributed to the most vulnerable and damaged families in the Eastern Orthodox, Orthodox, Evangelical and…

During a working visit to the Republic of Turkey, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his wife Olena took part in a prayer service for Ukraine and visited the Patriarchal Church of St. George. After that, the Head of State and the First Lady met with His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. The Patriarch thanked for…

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The Serbian Orthodox Church’s Metropolitanate of Australia and New Zealand is set to open its first parish school, the St.Sava College in the west Sydney suburb of Varroville. The school is expected to open in January 2021.

The deputy head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external Church relations, Vakhtang Kipsidze, reiterated the Church’s opposition to the concept of surrogate mothers and the legal notion of surrogacy. He stated that “…Speaking as a citizen of Russia, I do not want the country in which I live become a field for testing of…

Yet another example where Orthodoxy unites, when war divides, was reported from far-off Iceland. A joint prayer service was held this week before an icon of Our Most Holy Lady Theotokos, the Ever-Virgin Mary, at the St. Nicholas Orthodox cathedral in Reykjavik, bringing together Orthodox faithful who make Iceland their home, along with émigrés from…

A category 4 crisis level was declared this week for the northern prefecture of Kozani over the next 14 days, due to a significant spike in the number of confirmed coronavirus infections in the area. Based on a previous decision by the permanent Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece, restrictions to be…