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ANNOUNCEMENT Wellington 1st of April 2020 To the Clergy, the Monastic Brotherhoods and Sisterhoods and the reverent plentitude of the...

Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana, Durrës and All Albania shares his perspective in this E-interview about the way churches are adapting, both in Albania and worldwide, to the COVID-19 pandemic. As we pray for the researchers trying to find a treatment, churches can also emphasize our duty to stay at home while, at the same time, freeing ourselves from fear and anxiety. We must find ways to assist the sick directly or indirectly, as we prepare for Easter, and open our hearts to the light of hope. In what ways is Your Beatitude seeing churches adapt to life amid the coronavirus outbreak? In Albania, and worldwide. Archbishop Anastasios: When we were informed about the spread of the pandemic of COVID-19 in Albania, we addressed our people (on 12 ...

Our starting point’s always wrong. Instead of starting from ourselves, we always want to change other people first and then ourselves. If only each of us would begin from our self, peace would prevail.

Apart from its usual dedication to the Menaion (the commemoration of the lives of the Saints) and the early custom...

  The Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece on Wednesday, after a marathon session, announced that services...

Over the last several weeks and months, the world has been gripped by the turmoil that the Coronavirus pandemic has wrought upon its seven billion people.  Whether affected directly or not, we all have been impacted by its physical, social, psychological, and financial punch.  This pandemic will be remembered by historians as one of the major global events of the twenty-first century. One of its most paralyzing fangs of this invisible enemy has been the feeling of isolation that the necessary practice of social distancing has had on people.  Out of protection for ourselves and love and concern for others, sensible and responsible people have had to physically separate themselves from other people outside of their immediate household. In the news, we ...

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  Greece’s culture ministry this week submitted a case file to UNESCO requesting that the annual religious celebrations on the...

  The Holy Eparchial Synod of the Archdiocese of America convened on Tuesday via teleconference, in order to be briefed...

  The Metropolitan of Zambia, His Eminence Ioannis, this week called on the faithful to strictly follow public health officials’...

  The Metropolitan of Veria and Naoussa, His Eminence Panteleimon, on Tuesday officiated at the service of the Great After-Feast...

  The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, on Wednesday morning officiated at the funeral service of...

  Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Tuesday afternoon, for the first time since strict lockdown conditions were enacted in...

  The Church today venerates the memory of Mary of Egypt, on the date of her repose in the sixth...

  Russia currently has more than 2,300 confirmed cases of coronavirus infections, with 17 deaths, the majority of which are...

While a number of hierarchs have been blessing their respective cities and provinces from above on plane and helicopter rides,...

US Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt has unveiled the #USGreece2021 logo which the US government will use for all its...

The more you practice doing good, the more you also acquire the fear of God. You recognize your minor transgressions, which you hadn’t even noticed before because you were in the darkness of ignorance. » Elder Cleopa Ilie

  1. Firstly can you comment on the Coronavirus pandemic? Is it true that humankind is experiencing a global biological...

NEW YORK – The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America and the Office of Ionian Village regretfully announce today the cancellation...