The Greek Orthodox Board of Education of the Archdiocese in Australia presented the 6th Annual Award Ceremony for Excellence in the previous year’s Higher School Certificate exams by students of our Greek Orthodox Day Schools in New South Wales. The much anticipated event was held in the Great Hall of St Andrew’s Theological College on…

Recent news reports from Ukraine indicate that the Russian government is moving against the new autocephalous Orthodox Church in Ukraine in the areas of Ukraine under its control. The Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group reported on February 14, 2019 that “the Orthodox Church of Ukraine has been ordered to vacate the Cathedral of Vladimir and…

On February 19, 2019, His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, together with his delegation, began his visit to the Holy Archdiocese of Kinshasa, which is led by His Eminence Nicephoros, Metropolitan of Kinshasa and Exarch of Central Africa. During his visit, the Patriarch visited parishes, blessed the faithful, and…

The opening of an exhibition entitled “Archbishop Nicholas – An Apostle to Japan” will open at the chapel of the Lomonosov Moscow State University in the coming days. Next year, 2020, marks the 150-year anniversary of the establishment of the Russian Orthodox mission in Japan, and the 50-year anniversary of his canonization, as an “Equal-to-the-Apostles,…

Finally, the annoyance expressed by the Russian Orthodox Church to a decision by the Ecumenical Patriarchate to grant the requests of Orthodox believers in the Ukraine for Autocephaly, continues to generate insecurity among the faithful, and often fears of expressing one’s convictions. Nevertheless, the Moscow Church’s official website this week reported that hierarchs in Ukraine’s…

The theme of a two-day seminar organized by the Greek foreign ministry is “Religious and Ecclesiastical Diplomacy”. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, His Beatitude, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Ieronymos, Foreign Minister Giorgos Katrougalos and representatives of the World Council of Churches and individual European Churches will briefly address the session. Deputy FM Markos…

The Ecumenical  Patriarch Bartholomew In this week referred to the Patriarchate of Constantinople’s international initiatives for environmental protection around the globe. His All Holiness Bartholomew spoke at the opening of a conference entitled “Environment, School and Society – 10 Years of Environmental Actions”, which includes the participation of more than 200 educators. The conference was…

The semi-autonomous monastic community of Mt. Athos – located in north of the country – as well as religious freedoms, were included in a discussion held this week between Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Markos Bolaris and US ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt. The Greek minister briefed the US envoy over his government’s priorities in terms…

The Turkish government is reportedly pressuring Athens to allow the reopening of 19 Ottoman-era mosques around Greece for use as Muslim places of worship. The specific report was carried by Turkish mass media. More radical positions held by the Erdogan government in the neighboring country are often not expressed publicly, but rather, appear in the…