Metropolitan of Pisidia Sotirios This Sunday honors a remarkable missionary, someone who proved to be more than what society thought...
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This Sunday honors a remarkable missionary, someone who proved to be more than what society thought of her. It is St. Photini (the name means “Enlightened One”), who was the Samaritan woman Jesus met at Jacob’s well, as described in today’s Gospel reading. She was from Samaria, a people the Jews considered as heretics, shunning them and refusing to have any dealings with them. St. Photini’s old life had been a scandalous one, which was widely known in her community. In spite of all of that, she was a person who was spiritually searching. She had been with multiple men, but she was still unfulfilled, wanting something greater. What she was looking for was salvation. She wanted to find the ...
SPECIAL PRAYER SERVICE: Tuesday, May 26, 2020 at 12:30pm His Eminence, Metropolitan Evangelos of New Jersey to Lead Prayer Service...
Supreme President George G. Horiates has issued the following statement on the sad news of the passing of Eugene T....
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The Metropolitan of Zambia, His Eminence Ioannis, on Sunday officiated at a memorial service at the Metropolitan Cathedral’s side...
The US Commission on international religious freedom, an independent, bipartisan US federal government commission, this month issued its annual...
The Russian Orthodox Church over the weekend inaugurated a program whereby clerics can meet and comfort patients in hospitals...
The Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II, spoke after the Divine Liturgy on Sunday at...
The Archbishop of Australia, His Eminence Makarios, issued a plea for donations for one of the Church’s faithful, Dimitris...
In his Homily on the Sunday of the Samaritan Woman, the Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, referred to...
Today is the fifth Monday after Pascha, Holy and Great Easter Sunday. The Church today venerates the Eight Holy...
At the request of a coronavirus patient, the Orthodox priest, who serves as chaplain at Timisoara’s infectious diseases hospital, put...
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On Wednesday, May 13, 2020, the day of Mid-Pentecost, in response to pleas by many Orthodox Christians and with the...
Every year on May 17, the Georgian Orthodox Church celebrates Family Purity Day, traditionally with a large procession through the...
Encyclical Note of the Orthodox Metropolis of Korea Dear Brothers and Sisters in the Lord, Christ is Risen! In the...
Pemptousia, Orthodoxia News Agency stress need to unite our voices, strengthen presence of Orthodox world amid pandemic. The editors and staff of both the online magazine Pemptousia, which focuses on Orthodoxy, scholarly research and culture, as well as the Orthodoxia News Agency have become aware of the crucial need for all of us to unite our voices and to strengthen the presence of the Orthodox world, especially now amid this ominous pandemic. Moreover, the International Association of Digital Media and Orthodox Pastoral Care is participating, along with its members, associates, researchers, lecturers and clerics, in this initiative with Pemptousia and the Orthodoxia News Agency. Today we present an article by Fr. Bassam Nassif, Assistant Professor of Pastoral Theology, University of Balamand and Member of ...
Original Article Ioannis-Eleemon Papagiannopoulos-Vatopaidinos, Maria Papagiannopoulou – Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Economics, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Vassilis Sideris – Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Athens, Greece; Alexandra Hospital, Athens, Greece Journal: Complementary Medicine Research Editor: Karger Verlag Abstract Objective: The aim of this study was to provide a deeper in- sight into dry fasting (DF) physiology. Design: Ten participants performed DF for 5 consecutive days. Methods: The following parameters were monitored daily: cortisol, aldosterone, high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (CRP), erythropoietin, albumin, uric acid, and vitamin C in serum; vasopres- sin (ADH), adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), renin, an- giotensin II, and total antioxidant capacity (TAC) in plasma; hematocrit and erythrocytes in whole blood; osmolality, nor- adrenaline, dopamine, adrenaline, Na+, and K+ in 24-h urine; waist circumference ...
