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Persecution of Christians in China: as we have reported here for quite some time, the Chinese government is in the...

I greet you my beloved with love and joy in the name of our Resurrected Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!...

Lord and Master of my Life..” is how the Lenten prayer of Saint Ephraim the Syrian, commences. It is not...

When divine Grace comes, we stand in concentration, self-control and prayer.

Religious officials said that reopening was postponed but did not give a new date JERUSALEM: Two months after it was...

  To His Holiness Patriarch KIRILL of Moscow and All Russia Your Holiness, Vladyko! CHRIST IS RISEN! On behalf of...

The contest is organized to present the diversity and beauty of Orthodoxy in Finland. Through this contest, which will culminate with an album and an exhibition, we would like to present for wider audience Christian life in Finland. We are looking for images in these categories: Churches (architecture, frescos, crosses, tombs, landscape) People (ordained and lay, portrait, etc.) Reportage (Church events, pilgrimages, feasts, etc.) Entering the competition is free of charge. Due to Coronavius pandemics we encourage participants to look through their archives. If you sent your application before 31st of May you will not lose your limits. All entries must be received by September 4th, 2020. The following prizes are available in this competition: Grand Prix: 400 EURO, 1st prize in each category: 200 EURO, 2st prize ...

“Don’t pass these on as a simple idea, as our own cultural inheritance,” he said, “but pass them to the...

The feast of Saints Constantine and Helen is of special importance for the Halki seminary. On this day, Metropolitan Konstantinos...

The Church of Cyprus said Thursday it would not be serving Holy Communion with plastic spoons and stood by its...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has labeled churches and other houses of worship as “essential» and called on governors...

By N. Zaimis The pros and cons of online tertiary-level instruction and lectures – in the wake of coronavirus pandemic measures –...

His Eminence Metropolitan Evangelos of New Jersey has issued his Memorial Day Encyclical 2020. The Encyclical reads:   Memorial Day...

On Friday, May 29, 2020, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America and Saint Photios National Shrine will present the Shrine’s...

Severance of the will and rejection of the self remove malice from the soul. Then the highest aims in life, purity and peace, settle into your heart.

Download: Re-Opening Our Parishes – Letter to the Faithful    Video Transcript Beloved Brothers and Sisters in the Lord, Christ...

‘And his disciples asked him, Teacher, who was to blame, he himself or his parents, that he was born blind?’ (Jn. 9, 2). A little earlier the Lord had cured the paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda and had said to him: ‘Go and sin no more, lest worse befall you’. (Jn. 5, 14). It’s clear from Christ’s words that the latter, who had been crippled for so many years, was himself to blame for his sickness. The case of the man who was born blind, however, was not so clear and this is why His disciples asked ‘Who sinned?’. The fact that God sometimes allows offspring to suffer for the sins of their parents had been clarified already in Holy ...

Today’s Gospel reading describes the healing of a man born blind, and speaks about the Light of life, the Heavenly Light, Christ. God’s revelation occurs in stages as in last week’s Gospel. Both the blind man and the Samaritan woman initially consider Christ to be an ordinary man, then they recognise Him as one of the Prophets, and finally they worship Him as the Son of God and Saviour of the world. The Lord had already faced the fervent hatred of the Jews, who persecuted Him from every side as a blasphemer. There was a great uproar when He broke the Sabbath and referred to Himself as the Son of God; they cast Him out of the synagogue and deprived him ...

On the feast of the Translation of the Relics of Saint Nicholas of Myra, on May 22, 2020, His Holiness...