His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America announced yesterday, Jan. 30, 2020, the re-establishment of the High Council for Greek Education in the U.S. The Archbishop made the announcement during an evening celebration for the Feast of the Three Hierarchs and the Day of Greek Letters at the Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity. The celebration for the Three Hierarchs featured a…

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The Holy Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church, under the chairmanship of His Holiness Patriarch Irinej of Serbia, on Thursday announced that it will seek recourse to the constitutional court in Montenegro in order to render a recently passed law in the small Adriatic country as unconstitutional. The contentious law obliges religious institutions…

A 21-year-old Christian convert in Iran, well known for highlighting the plight of persecuted Christians in the Middle East country, remains missing nearly three weeks after her arrest. According to media reports, Fatemeh Mohammadi, also known as Mary, was among those arrested earlier this month in central Tehran. At the time of her arrest, street…

The pages of the Orthodoxia News Agency on Friday host another devotional lecture by the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, and specifically on the subject of “The Presence of the Panaghia, the Virgin Mary, on Mt. Athos”. The lecture, part of the Sunday weekly “Lessons from Athos”…

The Greek Orthodox Cathedral of Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in Tanta, Egypt, reopened on Friday, during a ceremony in the presence of the Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Divine Beatitude Theodoros II. The historic cathedral served the faithful of a once flourishing ethnic Greek community, roughly midway between Cairo and Alexandria….

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived today in Kiev for an official visit to the Ukraine, where, among others, he met with the Metropolitan of Kiev and All Ukraine, His Beatitude Epiphanius, the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The meeting took place on Friday, January 31, as part of Pompeo’s visit to Kyiv,…

An annual event held by the Greek Orthodox parish of the Holy Apostles, in Dortmund, Germany, in commemoration of the Feast Day of the Three Hierarchs, this year was dedicated to the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I. The event was attended by representatives of several religious communities in Germany, along with…

This year, 2020, with the blessing of HAH the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, and with heartfelt gratitude to God as well as a deep sense of pastoral responsibility, we will celebrate the 120th anniversary of Orthodoxy in the Korean Peninsula (1900-2020). During the year 2020, with the help of God, there will be various commemorative events…