God willing, we are celebrating this year as well, the Feast of Greek and Christian Letters and we solemnly honour the Great Fathers who cultivated with zeal and enthusiasm the Christian Ideals, the echo of which continues in our days, particularly in, but not restricted to the Orthodox Christian world. In particular, we honour those…

Today January 27, 2019 will be remembered in the history of the Orthodox Church in Uganda as the very first time His Grace Bishop Silvester Kisitu of Gulu and Eastern Uganda presided over the Holy Liturgy in Uganda as a Bishop. AXIOS! Having arrived in Uganda from Greece on Friday 25th January, various celebrations have…

The Georgian Orthodox Church marks St. Nino Day today. Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II has conducted a liturgy in Sioni cathedral in connection with St. Nino Day today.  After the liturgy the Patriarch preached. His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II congratulated the assembled people and the whole Georgia on St….

In addition to its spiritual role, the Romanian Orthodox Church is a great philanthropic force in the Orthodox nation. For example, the Archdiocese of Timișoara in western Romania spent more than $1 million in social endeavors last year alone. It was reported at the diocesan assembly on January 19 that 13,725 people were helped through…

Though many Athonite monks are “extremely negative” about the recent actions of the Patriarchate of Constantinople in Ukraine, there is no consensus on the Mountain, a source close to the monastic communities told RIA-Novosti yesterday. “Athonite monks—at least in personal conversations—are very negative about this. But there has been no official decision about it yet,”…

The way that the authorities in Ukraine use the Church for political purposes and to cover their own sins is unbelievable, His Eminence Archbishop Juraj of Michalovce and Košice of Slovakia commented in an interview with the Information-Education Department of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church yesterday. Abp. Juraj began the day yesterday celebrating the Divine Liturgy…

Following a Te Deum thanksgiving service officiated on Thursday at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest, the Patriarch of Romania and President Klaus Iohannis laid flowers to the memorial of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza as a sign of gratitude to the one who helped the Romanian Principalities be united in one state 160 years ago. The…

On Thursday, January 24, 2019, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel officiated a Te Deum thanksgiving service at the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest marking the 160th anniversary of the Union of the Romanian Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia. The service was attended by Romania’s President Klaus Werner Iohannis, the President of the Romanian Academy Ioan-Aurel Pop, the…

Τhe annual celebration of Hellenic Heritage & Dance, PARATHOSI 2019, of the Direct Archdiocesan District of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, now in its seventh year, will take place Sat. Jan. 26, 2019 at Lefrak Concert Hall at Queens College, in Flushing, N.Y. “This is an important youth ministry of our Archdiocese that promotes…