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An Encyclical for New Year’s Day Let us sit and talk for a moment. Let us discuss our sorrows and our troubles. Let us reminisce about the days of old, as well as the most recent past. If we could go back 200 years, we would come across the so-called Old Man of the Morea, the Greek General Theodoros Kolokotronis. Let us pay careful attention to what he would tell us. Can you hear him? This is what he would say: “God has signed in favour of Greece’s freedom and He does not take back His signature.” A handful of brave young men took an oath: freedom or death. For the Holy Faith of Christ. For the freedom of the homeland. For the ...

Stricter week-long restriction measures to manage the rise in coronavirus cases went into effect at 06:00 on Sunday, January 3...

Bread is an extremely important element in Bulgarian traditional culture. That is why there are a number of rituals and...

It took Serbia eight centuries to erect a monument to the founder of the state. On December 25, 2020, the...

From the Fall of Adam and Eve and their exile from Paradise until the coming of the Messiah, Christ’s incarnation...

First public screening of the documentary about the life, personality and work of Archbishop Stylianos of blessed memory; a gift...

A number of families received an amazing Christmas gift this year in Romania. Through the efforts of Fr. Dan Damaschin,...

President of Montenegro, Milo Djukanović, sent the adopted laws back to the Parliament, including the Law on Freedom of Religion,...

The Metropolitanate of Zagreb-Ljubljana calls upon all people of goodwill, who want and can, to help the victims of the...

His Grace Bishop Joanikije of Budimye-Niksic and the Administrator of Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral and Their Graces Bishops...

John, Bishop of Caracas and South America has issued his Nativity Epistle. The Epistle reads: But when the fulness of the...

The established annual memorial service for the departed Fathers, memorable Patriarchs of Jerusalem, Archbishops, Hieromonks and Monks and Nuns was...

Obscenity is when people use foul  language. Such people are the most ridiculous of people, the most dishonorable, brazen-faced, shameless in their behavior, with no control over their tongue, brash and unabashed. They’re laughable. Their mouths are full of inanity, nonsense, and audacity. Saint Nektarios of Pentapolis, the Wonder-Worker

Jesus, Son of God, have mercy on me. Redeem me from my captivity. Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk

On Thursday, 18/31 December 2020, the Patriarchate celebrated the feast of our Father among the Saints Modestos, Patriarch of Jerusalem....

On December 27, 2020, Metropolitan Vladimir of Chisinau and all Moldova celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Nativity of the...

In his New Year’s message, Metropolitan Teofan of Moldavia and Bukovina urged everyone to be closer to God. He urged...

In a video message for the New Year 2021, Patriarch Daniel wished the faithful good health and much help from...

HB Patriarch John X at New Year’s Divine Liturgy: “Today we celebrate the feast with a heartache because of the...