His Beatitude the Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III was interviewed by the World Council of Churches (WCC) director of communication...
Amid the spread of the Coronavirus pandemic, the team of Our Lady Dispensary (OLD), which is affiliated to the Middle...
The bicommunal Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage issued a call for tenders to proceed with the next phase in the...
His Eminence Archbishop Makarios’ first book to be released in English is now available. To order a...
Our minds should be in heaven; we should be hastening to get to our real home, where we’re destined to live. The place where we belong is in the heavens. This is where real Christians differ from the whole of the rest of the human race. There’s a big gap between the two.
Dear parents and campers of our Fanari Family, Christ is Risen! Truly He is Risen! At this time of...
Moscow, April 29, Interfax – Well-known businessman Konstantin Malofeyev said he has contracted coronavirus. «I have uncharacteristic symptoms,» Malofeyev said...
The 2019 documentary on life and works of the Elder Joseph the Hesychast, who was canonized as a saint of...
The government of the republic of Cyprus on Wednesday announced that personal worship will be allowed in places of worship...
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The registration process for participation in the second online Archontariki from Mount Athos, with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot...
The Patriarchate of Romania this week condemned a publicity campaign that featured physicians depicted as holy saints, in styles that...
Archbishop of Cyprus, His Beatitude Chrysostomos, this week praised his and the Church’s cooperation with Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades and...
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, as widely expected, on Tuesday afternoon announced a relaxation of imposed restrictions in the country, ones...
Today marks the 2nd Wednesday after Pascha, Holy and Great Easter. The Church today venerates the memory of Jason and...
Greece education and religious affairs minister, during a nationally televised press briefing on Wednesday afternoon, thanked the Autocephalous Church of...
The Romanian Patriarchate has announced that the amount of aid offered by the Church to the fight against the coronavirus...
Ioannis A. Papagiannopoulos, Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Economics, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany Vassilis I. Sideris, Alexandra Hospital of Athens, Greece Michael Boschmann, Experimental and Clinical Research Center (ECRC), Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany Olga S. Koutsoni – Eleni N. Dotsika, Laboratory of Cellular Immunology, Department of Microbiology, Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Athens, Greece Summary Background: Although there is considerable research in the field of fasting and fluid restriction, little is known about the impact of food and water deprivation (FWD) on body circumferences and vital parameters. Methods: During 5 days of FWD in 10 healthy adults, hemodynamic, metabolic, and renal parameters, such as weight, 5 circumferences at neck, waist, hip, chest at axilla, chest at nipples, and 1 new oblique hip circumference were measured daily. ...
Lord, I heard Your celebrant today praying for our brothers and sisters ‘who are absent for good reason’. And they...
Lord, I heard Your celebrant today praying for our brothers and sisters ‘who are absent for good reason’. And they stuck in my mind. I want to find them, to discover them and then send up fervent supplications for them. Who are they, Lord? Who are they who are far away from Your house at the time of the Divine Liturgy? Certainly there are those who are too ill to attend. Those for whom it’s their heart’s desire, but whose body fails them. The soul leaps at being close to You, in the warm embrace of Your church, but the flesh, sick as it is, can’t consent. Then there are their companions, the guardian angels of the patients, who, in the hospital or ...
