The Church today venerates the memory of John, and Symeon, the Fool for Christ. A feature on the life and works of the saints is posted today on the pages of the diakonima.gr site.

The second part of the inaugural online assembly from Mount Athos with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, and members of the Romanian Christian Students Association, which took place earlier this month, was posted today on the pages of the Internet magazine Pemptousia.   

The Metropolitan of Mesogaia and Lavreotiki, His Eminence Nikolaos, this week was bestowed with an honorary doctorate by the Athens-based Pantios University’s faculty of public administration.

  The Metropolitan of Elbasan, His Eminence Antonios, officiated at a Divine Liturgy at the Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Christ, in the central Albanian city of Gramsh. His Eminence thanked the parish priests and benefactors who supported works to complete the church. Afterwards, he spoke with members of the parish’s youth, calling on them…

A letter signed by several of Montenegro’s top athletes expressed their solidarity towards the just, as they stressed, struggle of the Orthodox Church in the small Adriatic country against a controversial law passed by the government regarding religious institutions. The letter comes shortly before talks are set to resume between the Serbian Patriarchate’s Metropolitanate of…

  The Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, issued a message to the faithful in the State of Victoria regarding the increasing number of Covid-19 cases in metropolitan Melbourne and all of Victoria. In a statement, the Archbishop urged the Orthodox faithful, and all people, not to become disillusioned, not to lose courage and hope…

The mayor of ancient Constantinople, modern-day Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu, said he will not attend a Muslim prayer service on Friday at the greatest of all cathedrals of eastern Christendom, the Hagia Sophia, a planned and widely advertised event by the Islamist Erdogan administration to “celebrate” the UNESCO World Heritage site’s conversion into mosque. The popular…

  EU leaders on Monday evening finally achieved consensus and agreed to implement a massive post-pandemic recovery fund for member-states. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis referred to a national success, as the agreement will provide Greece with around 72 billion euros to help the country deal with the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic. The 750-billion-euro…

On 18 July 2020, His Grace Bishop Fotije of Zvornik-Tuzla consecrated the Old church in the Serbian town in Derventa, which was destroyed in 1992 during the occupation of the Croatian Defence Council and so-called the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Since the church was destroyed in 1992, on the Ascension Day, and it was…