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NEW YORK – Today, July 9, 2020, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America visited his local Police station, the 19th...

A new music video from the Emmy Award-winning actor and musician and convert to holy Orthodoxy Jonathan Jackson dedicated to...

The AHEPA National Educational Foundation, in partnership with the Mavroyannis family, is proud to continue to meet its commitment to...

A Turkish court is likely to announce on Friday that the 1934 conversion of Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia into a museum...

We think it will be a wise step today if the Hagia Sophia remains a neutral place, This is stated...

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The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, on Thursday again revisited the increasingly pressing issue of the...

The Church today venerates the memory of Hieromartyr Pancratius, the Bishop of Tauromenium in Sicily, and a contemporary of the...

The 10-year anniversary of the establishment of a care center for expectant mothers in Moldavia, operated by the Orthodox Metropolis...

Members of the Archdiocese of America’s Holy Eparchial Synod met on Wednesday in an extraordinary video conference, at the invitation...

Prof. Vladimir Leposavic, a member of the Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral’s legal council, this week detailed the persecutions...

The Greek government on Wednesday evening issued another joint ministerial decision extending social distancing measures for places of worship until...

Only days, if not hours, remain before Turkey’s Council of State releases a decision regarding a petition to reconvert the...

Great house with Christian symbols in the Byzantine town of Pi Metzuba also had a mosaic with pagan motifs, including...

All the other capacities which we glimpse around the divine nature surpass the measure of human understanding, but lowliness is implanted within us and co-exists with those who come from below, are composed of earthly material and who return to the ground. You acquire the characteristics of bliss when you imitate God insofar as this is naturally possible. Let no-one think that humility is achieved easily and without effort. Quite the opposite. It’s the most exhausting of all the virtues we seek. And why is this? Because when people who’ve received the seeds of good aren’t vigilant, they’re susceptible to the opposite seeds from the enemy of our life and these give rise to the weed of pride within us. ...

edited by Stelios Koukos) Archimandrite Avgoustinos Katsambiris had repeatedly asked the Elder (Saint Païsios the Athonite) to pray that the...

Part I – September 9 Beginning at 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time 1.Opening Session Will include the Keynote Address of Archbishop...

The Steering Committee of the “Patriarchal Network” The novel coronavirus has brought an overwhelming strain on public health systems throughout...

  The Holy Eparchial Synod met today in an extraordinary video conference at the invitation of His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros...

(edited by Stelios Koukos) Archimandrite Avgoustinos Katsambiris had repeatedly asked the Elder (Saint Païsios the Athonite) to pray that the newly-revealed Saint Vlasios, from Sklavaina, would appear to him. The archimandrite wanted to know what Saint Vlasios looked like, so that he could paint an icon of him. It was 21 January, 1980, the Sunday of the Prodigal Son, going on to Monday. While the Elder was praying in his kelli, with the komboskini, he saw an unknown saint appear before him, bathed in light and wearing a monastic mantle. Next to him, on the wall of his kelli, above the wood-stove, there were the remains of a monastery. The Elder felt indescribable joy and exultation and wondered who the saint was. Then ...