“Therefore, I invite each and every one of you. Join me. Become another Simon of Cyrene, who, as you remember, was forced by the Roman soldiers to carry the Cross of our Lord. What a…
On the occasion of the International Day Against Drug Abuse, the Archbishop of Athens and all Greece sends a message to young people. Archbishop Ieronymos says young people that the addictions of our time, such…
“Please ignore people’s eyes rolling and heads turning when your children are ‘playing up’ inside the house of God. I want you to know that they are always welcome,” says Fr Michael Psaromatis. When Adelaide-based…
The Enthronement of Archbishop Makarios of Australia will take place on Saturday, June 29, at 11.00 am at the Holy Cathedral of the “Annunciation of the Theotokos” (242 Cleveland Street, Redfern, Sydney). The Greek Orthodox…
The four Primates of the Autocephalous Orthodox Churches in the Middle East will meet a second time in Nicosia in the near future in an effort to find a solution for the ecclesial issue of…
Following the Divine Liturgy in the Church of the Holy Trinity in Patras, Greece on Monday, His Eminence Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Patras announced that he had proposed Elder Gervasios (Paraskevopoulos) for canonization, submitting a packet…
The Bulgarian church will add Georgia to a list of pilgrimage destinations, including countries the local church advises its parish to visit, the Georgian parliament reports. The step will encourage religious tourism in Georgia and…
The new Archbishop of Australia, Makarios, arrived in Sydney on Tuesday. The Assistant Bishops of the Holy Archdiocese, the clergy, the monastic fraternities, the pious people and representatives of state and political authorities welcomed the…
The Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate unanimously elected Metropolitan Nikitas of Dardanelles as the new Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain, succeeding Archbishop Gregorios who retired as of Wednesday June 12, 2019. Metropolitan Nikitas…
The Sümela Monastery has seen an influx of tourists during the Eid al-Fitr festival following a four-year-long comprehensive restoration and rock improvement project, Hürriyet reports. On the first day of the festival on June 4, a total of 1,990 tourists visited…