A video posted on the Orthodoxia news agency’s website shows the loading late last month of a container carrying 25 tons of humanitarian aid to the Orthodox mission in Ivory Coast, in west Africa,. The aid was collected and sent by the Orthodox Missionary Fraternity.

Αn educational seminar was organized on Saturday in Tirana by the Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania’s Spirit of Love Foundation. Some 170 educators attended the seminar. His Beatitude, Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana, Durrës and All Albania, the president of the Foundation, addressed educators, whom he called partners in the Church’s pious work.

  The US Supreme Court this week is expected to decide whether a 40-foot, 16-ton Latin Cross standing on public land in Bladensburg, Maryland, conforms to constitutional Church-state separation in America. The now publicly maintained memorial was built in 1925 to honor 49 local men who fought and died in World War I.

  The Flemish-language newspaper De Standaard on Monday reported on a same-dayrally by pupils and teachers in the Belgian city of Ghent in support of the continued teaching of ancient Greek and Latin in the country’s secondary schools. Some 1,000 pupils and 100 teachers participated in the rally, with De Standaard noting that debate in…

    The Church of Greece’s hierarchy is expected to decide on two highly crucial matters in the coming period — one involving Church-state relations, and the other dealing with the issue of the Ukrainian Church’s autocephaly. In relation to the first matter, a second vote in Greece’s parliament is set for early next month…

A group of Greek hagiographers are in the United States, and specifically in Loveland, Colorado, to paint the interior of local cathedrals. Local resident Katy Vicory, as specialist in Orthodox hagiography, and a parishioner of the St. Spyridon Orthodox Church in northern Colorado, emphasized that the depictions of the life of Christ, Orthodox saints and…

The Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi, located in the semi-autonomous monastic community of Mt. Athos, this year again extended its support to college students and pupils belonging to multi-child families in Greece who excelled in their studies in 2018. The annual event was held at a downtown Athens hotel to honor the families. Fr….

Japanese-born American actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa has been baptized into the Christian Orthodox faith. Tagawa, best-known for his role as the villain “Shang Tsung” in the film “Mortal Kombat”, has often been cast in the role of a samurai in Hollywood productions. The sacrament was performed by Russian Orthodox Bishop Hilarion, the Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, at…

A great success was the 43rd annual Greek Orthodox Folk Dance & Choral Festival (FDF) of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of San Francisco which took place February 14-17, 2019 at the Ontario Convention Center in Ontario, California! FDF is dedicated to promoting, encouraging and continuing the Orthodox faith, Greek heritage and culture among individuals, families…