2020

A Christmas celebration for children was organized in Damascus by the Russian Orthodox Church, the Russian embassy in the Syrian...

Public debate regarding Greece’s digital transformation between 2020 and 2025 was concluded this month, with the initiative describing the strategy...

The Metropolitan of Symi, an island in the eastern Aegean, His Eminence Chrysostomos, over the weekend received the visiting chief...

Cabinet ministers of the government of Cyprus will convene on Tuesday to decide on the manner in which places of...

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, has urged all to abide by precautionary measures imposed by...

The Church today venerates the memory of Juliana of Nicomedia, and her 630 companion Martyrs. St. Juliana achieved the crown...

“Today our Church celebrates St Ignatios the God-bearer. The tradition says that he was the child that Christ held in...

Sunday the 20th of December 2020 marked the inaugural State-wide Christmas Carols (Kalanda) event for the Archdiocesan District of Adelaide....

The Gospel reading for the Sunday before Christmas, taken from the beginning of the Gospel of Saint Matthew, contains Christ’s genealogy ‘after the flesh’, and, thereafter, God’s dispensation regarding the birth of Jesus from the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary. Let us turn our attention to the significance of this for each one of us. Every year, in an atmosphere of joy and delight, the Church celebrates the Birth of Christ, and sings wonderful hymns to God Who became incarnate and re-formed our degenerate human nature. Orthodox hymnography and theology emphasize the great anthropological significance of the divine incarnation: we have been saved from hopeless degradation and from the chaos of destructive hatred by the love of God, which took ...