A great spiritual event and joy for the Orthodox faithful of the Maasai tribe in Tanzania and the whole of the Diocese of Arusha and Central Tanzania was celebrated recently. According to the Missionary Center of St. Dionysios of Olympus, a mass wedding service was served recently, bringing several Maasai couples together with the blessing…

On Saturday, September 26, on the eve of the feast of the Exaltation of the Precious and Lifegiving Cross of the Lord, His Eminence Metropolitan Benjamin of Minsk, the newly-appointed Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus, together with His Grace Bishop Pavel of Stolbtsy and Molodechno and a host of clergy, consecrated the Church of the…

NEW YORK: On September 28th, 2020, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America convened a regularly scheduled Holy Eparchial Synod meeting via a teleconference in order to review the up-to-date matters of the Agenda. In the beginning of the meeting, gratitude was expressed to His All-Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew for His inspiring message, as well…

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3,000 icons of Russian origin confiscated by German customs authorities will be returned from Germany to Russia, the head of the, Police Major General Alexander Prokophuck reported to TASS on Friday. The icons were found and confiscated by German authorities during an attempt to illegally import them into the country. State authorities decided to return…

  US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in the northern Greece city of Thessaloniki on Monday morning, where he later concluded talks with his Greek counterpart Nikos Dendias, a closely watched meeting that comes only days before an EU summit reviews relations with an increasingly bellicose Turkey. According to reports, bilateral, regional and international…

  The now infamous head of Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs, Ali Erbas, called the iconic Hagia Sophia, the greatest of all basilicas of eastern Christendom, a symbol of “…Turkish heritage”. Erbas, one of the closest associates to Islamist Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, made the outrageous statement at a press conference ahead of an…

  The Archbishop of Crete, His Eminence Irineos, continues to be hospitalized at an ICU unit in the city of Irakleio this week, with attending physicians referring to serious respiratory problems for the Cretan hierarch. His Eminence’s condition was described as critical, although not irreversible.

  The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, on Monday received the Greek government’s tourism minister, Haris Theoharis, with reports pointing to a request by the minister for talks regarding religious tourism and pilgrimages to Greece.   FOTOS CHRISTOS BONIS