The coronavirus pandemic, which is particularly acute in the Trabzon region in the southeast Black Sea coast region, as...
The second online Archontariki from Mount Athos, with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery...
The Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, on Sunday cited the role of women, as modern-day Myrrh-Bearers, stressing...
The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill, again cited the tribulation faced by humanity, in the...
The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, officiated at a prayer service on Sunday in supplication...
Churches and chapels in Greece on Monday opened for personal worship, weeks after strict coronavirus-related restrictions were first imposed....
Today is the third Monday after Pascha, Holy and Great Easter Sunday. Our Church today venerates the memory of...
When the heart becomes a furnace of love for God, then it can burn off vanity when it comes close to it and then there’s inner peace when you pass through the furnaces of the trials of life.
Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Χριστὸς Ἀνέστη! Christ is Risen!
Women and those unable to travel have the possibility to visit online the Holy Mount Athos. A website has made...
When he (Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos) was encouraging us once to study Patristic writings, he mentioned that there was benefit...
“This year, the Resurrection tells us many things. If it is true what we believe, and if we are living that which we chant, that “we celebrate the death of death, the deposition of Hades, and the beginning of another, eternal life” (Canon of Pascha), then we would fear for nothing. And every single threat increases the power of the presence of the risen Lord. “That which occurred this year with the Coronavirus is a temptation, but all temptations are transformed into blessings. We chant “let us say, O brethren, even to those who hate us.” (Doxastikon of Pascha) And those who hate us are waiting for our love, and those who do not believe are waiting for the power of ...
When he (Elder Iosif Vatopaidinos) was encouraging us once to study Patristic writings, he mentioned that there was benefit not only in their teaching and exhortations, but also from their prayers. As well as studying their works, we should call upon them. In his hermitage at New Skete, on the Holy Mountain, while he was studying the works of Saint Symeon the New Theologian and, at the same time, praying to him the presence of the saint became so tangible that he felt diffident and reticent. ‘I drew back’, he said, ‘in case I touched him’. He studied the Holy Fathers carefully, systematically and in depth and he always read the original not a modern translation. Writings well beyond the ability of many ...
The Religious and Foundation Employees’ Union (Diyanet Bir-Sen) called for the first Friday prayer after the coronavirus pandemic to be...
Beloved Brothers and Sisters in the Lord, Christ is Risen! Χριστὸς Ἀνέστη! On the Second Sunday after Pascha, we remember...
The Coronavirus pandemic has kept the doors of our churches closed and parish activities limited to virtual gatherings. That has...
Churches can be open daily from 7.30 am to 6.30 pm, Archbishop Chrysostomos said in a circular on Friday. They...
Regarding the article “Respect for the privacy and use of personal data provided by the Law” published in the daily...
The main cathedral of the Russian armed forces should not feature depictions of Joseph Stalin, says Vladimir Legoida, the chairman...
When people put themselves at the service of others with the aim of helping them and bringing them relief, then not only Christ but all the heavenly powers are at their disposal
