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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...

  The Archbishop of Cyprus, His Beatitude Chrysostomos, was discharged from a local hospital on Tuesday, after a successful post-operative...

  Seventh online Archontariki from Mount Athos with the Elder Archimandrite Ephraim, the Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery...

  The Romanian Patriarchate this week expressed its sharp criticism of a decision by the central government to cancel the...

  Members of the Holy Eparchial Synod of the Archdiocese of America have announced the establishment of two committees to...

  Members of the Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece convened on Tuesday morning, with Greece’s Development...

  The Church today venerates the memory of Carpus, Papylus, Agathodorus and Agathonica, the Martyrs of Pergamus. They were all...

Don’t trust people. Be careful who you have dealings with. Never listen to what people are saying. Then you have temptations. We’re human. The devil has many ploys, machinations and snares. Everything within a marriage should be dealt with through love, meekness and patience. Have faith in God, pray and everything will happen in accordance with His will.

His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch. celebrated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the Cathedral Church in Belgrade on October 10, 2020,...

The virtual tour of the Diveyevo Monastery is available online on the monastery’s website. It includes 120 panoramas made in...

The visit of His Beatitude Patriarch John X to the Dormition of the Theotokos Church in Zabadani to follow the...

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Today marks the 76th-anniversary of the evacuation of Axis occupation troops from Athens during WWII. German troops began retreating from...

A ceremony awarding certificates to candidates that successfully completed the Evengios Voulgaris program for Advanced Studies in Orthodox Spiritual Life...

A virtual tour of the Holy Trinity-St. Seraphim Monastery, near the Russian city of Sarov, is now available to the...