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This pandemic is not a chance occurrence allowed by God, but a sign of the times; it is a fruit of Divine indignation, as man is doing not what is natural, what is reasonable, but what is absurd and abnormal. Imagine how dismayed the Holy Spirit is, and how God the Father, again in His paternal role – because we should never forget that any tribulation allowed by God is not as executioner, or as an avenger, but allowed as a didactic motivated by love, precisely in order to bring man – the wanderer, the obscured – to bring him, through affliction and misfortune, through this lesson, closer to Him; and for him (man) to comprehend, not through the study ...

Holy Unction during pandemic is one of the most necessary services, however it seems that it is performed much less...

CONSTANTINOPLE – His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew expressed his fraternal wishes to his Beatitude Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and...

    This pandemic is not a chance occurrence allowed by God, but a sign of the times; it is...

The way the Church lives is in the end times. From the moment Christ ascended into heaven, the Church has never ceased to await His return to the world. The eschatological expectation manifests itself to the faithful in different ways in different eras. On the Sunday of Meat-Fare, this was the opening sentence of the two-page sheet The Voice of the Lord, which is published by Apostoliki Diakonia of the Church of Greece and distributed to those who want it at the time of the Holy Liturgy, on a Sunday. So that Sunday I went to church because, apart from anything else, I’d hear about the Second Coming. A difficult subject, for theologians and everyone. The editor of The Voice ...

The International Association of Digital Media and Orthodox Pastoral Care is participating, along with its members, associates, researchers, lecturers and...

Nowadays, Christians are going through difficult times due to the pandemic, which is preventing them from going to church and actively participating in the daily rich liturgical life of the Great Lent. We are on the threshold of Holy Week. Is it enough to listen to the prayers broadcasted by the social media, such as Facebook? How do we truly experience these prayers for our lives, since today we are denied for health reasons to go to church? In the days of adversity, persecution, and epidemic, and in times of prosperity, health and peace, the voice of St. John Chrysostom addressing the Christians of his era resounded as follows: “Let your house be a church!” (Homily on Acts 26, 3.4). How can ...

JERUSALEM  – Israelis who have beards for religious reasons will get the option of custom-made face masks to protect them...

Reverend Fathers, Honourable Presidents and Esteemed Members of the Boards of Directors, Members of the Philoptochos Societies, Teachers, Students and...

  One hundred Orthodox cantors from around Romania united their voices in supplication to the Panaghia, the Blessed Virgin Mary,...

  The Metropolitan of Mesogeas and Lavreotiki, His Eminence Nikolaos, referred to the subject of individual prayer, in a recent...

  Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has responded to the growing concerns of His Eminence, Archbishop Makarios — affirming to...

  The Cincture of the Theotokos, reverently safeguarded and venerated at the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi on Mount...

  The Cypriot government is expected to call on the Church of Cyprus to follow a decision last week by...

  The Greek government, as first reported by the Orthodoxia news agency, has extended temporary coronavirus-related restrictions on places of...

The Church today venerates the memory of Righteous Father Savvas the New, of Kalymnos. St. Savvas the New, an Athonite...

His Holiness Patriarch Serbian Irinej officiated Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great at the Convent of the Blessed Virgin...

In the last few years, St. Vladimir’s Seminary has seen an increase in students from the Serbian Church. Recently, SVOTS...

  A new documentary on the great 20th-century Athonite spiritual father Elder Joseph the Hesychast has been nominated in three...

The Greek government, as first reported by the Orthodoxia news agency, extended temporary coronavirus-related restrictions against the presence of people...