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Today, February 15, is the feast day of St. Onesimus the Apostle, for the Eastern Orthodox Church. Concerns were rampant within the Church hierarchy and among the faithful on Friday, a day after a razor-slim vote in Greece’s parliament conditionally approved revisions for the Greek constitution’s article 3, which delineates Church-state relations in the predominately…

Almost daily arrests of Christians in Iran, along with the jailing of priests, are the latest reports out of the Middle East country. Members of the shrinking Christian communities that remain in the country are reportedly observing sacraments in private, under the fear of arrest and attacks by Islamists. According to reports, such instances of…

  A new meeting, probably on Tuesday, is expected to take place between members of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece’s standing Holy Synod and the Greek education and religious affairs minister. Indications from the dialogue between the two sides so far shows that the Church is not willing to back down from its positions…

  A second vote in Greece’s parliament over a revision of Article 3 of the country’s constitution – which delineates Church-state relations – is set for March 13. Church sources that spoke to the Orthodoxia news agency after the first vote on Thursday afternoon referred to the possibility of initiatives by high-ranking ecclesiastical leaders and…

The first issue of ‘The Good to Know’ online magazine of the Basilica News Agency is now available for download. This project initially started in 2017 was named ‘The Basilica monthly review,’ and was published at the beginning of every month until its rebranding this year. What you are about to look through is the…

This past weekend, four Orthodox Churches from Bergen County, NJ hosted a wine tasting to benefit IOCC (International Orthodox Christian Charities) in Bergenfield, NJ. Fr. Djokan from the Serbian Orthodox Church of St. John the Baptist in Paterson, along with the Greek Orthodox Church St. John the Theologian, the Holy Apostles OCA Church and the…

The all-day celebration started with welcoming His Grace by our Church’s beautiful front entrance gate, where he was met by 7-year-old Jelena Beric, who presented him with a bouquet of flowers. Fr.Dragomir, the Stevan Hristic Choir and many faithful joyfully came forward to receive a blessing from His Grace while the procession continued to the…

Here were married Rhinelanders and Gardiners. Edith Wharton walked down the aisle here. Between 1887 and 1895 there were three Astor funerals – Mrs. John Jacob Astor, William Astor and Mrs. William Waldorf Astor. When former senator Roscoe Conkling died from exposure, having gotten lost in the Great Blizzard of 1888, the church was filled…