Following a prolonged COVID-19 shutdown, many parishes of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America are reporting a decrease in weekly...
The rapid spread of COVID-19, resulting in millions of infections and deaths around the world, as well as economic devastation...
The Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, His Beatitude John X, on Tuesday toured the under-reconstruction church of St....
The Russian Church’s Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, His Eminence Hilarion, this week received Greece’s ambassador to Russia, Ekaterini Nasika, a year...
Members of the Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece on Wednesday convened for a third consecutive day,...
The Church today venerates the memory of St. Paraskeva of the Balkans, also known as St. Petka throughout much of...
Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia congratulated the Georgian people on Svetitskhovloba from Mtskheta. PM said this day unites Georgian citizens...
The Georgian Orthodox Church celebrates Mtskhetoba, Svetitskhoveloba today. Divine liturgies are being delivered in honour of Svetiskhoveli Cathedral (‘the Living...
His Excellency Archbishop Atallah Hanna, Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Sebastia calls on to contribute in the “Hadinat Al Hayat” (i.e...
MECC implemented a training for 45 teachers and institute directors in Damascus, entitled “child protection”. This training aims to improve...
On October 13, 2020, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations (DECR), met...
On 13th October 2020, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, met with...
In October 13, 2020, there was a talk between Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations...
People who don’t confess their sins are constantly under the burden of guilt and are a long way from God. This is why their soul mourns and suffers. The abnormal moral state to which sinners are subject, the relentless strictures, are caused by awareness in the soul which recognizes its sin and seeks respite. The soul seeks confession because it knows the divine commandment, because it knows that’s the only means of reconciliation and rapprochement with God.
In the beginning, God made Adam and Eve free. They could accept His love or reject it; they could make good use of the freedom or misuse it. The commandment not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which was planted in the middle of Paradise, gave them this opportunity. According to Saint John Chrysostom, the knowledge of good was obedience and the knowledge of evil was disobedience. Observance of the commandment, obedience, would have helped our first ancestors to practice the good use of freedom, to become accustomed to it and to be confirmed in it. They would have directed their freedom permanently towards God and made their will identical to that of the Creator. ...
The Feast of Saint Isaac the Syriac, to whom the Cathedral in Doha is dedicated, was celebrated according to the...
NEW YORK – Following the prolonged COVID-19 shutdown, many parishes of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America have reported declines...
New York – On Monday, October 12, 2020, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America convened the Holy Eparchial Synod via...
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Today is the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction, which was first observed in 1989, after a call by...
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