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Despite an often official discrimination against indigenous Christians in Turkey, along with the latest threats by Turkish President Recep Tayyip...

  Choirs from schools, parishes and institutions ushered in the Christmas season at the Holy Archdiocese of Australia in Sydney,...

  Israel’s tourism minister this week called on the Primates of Christian Churches in the Holy Land to extend the...

  Touching video this Christmas, produced by the Church of Greece’s «Apostoli» charity, deals with the tests faced by households...

As all the parables are, that of the great banquet, as it’s known (the Gospel reading for the 11th Sunday of Luke) is of enduring value and, mutatis mutandis, expresses principles, weaknesses and the nature of people in every era. Let’s try, then, to bring this parable of the great banquet into our own age so that we can perhaps understand better the depth of the meanings and teachings contained in it. ‘A certain man prepared a great banquet and invited many guests’…The Evangelist doesn’t tell us if the man was a king, lord or simply rich, as is usually the case in such instances. It would be reasonable to assume, therefore, that the master of the feast was an ordinary householder, ...

It’s God’s will that we be united and bound together by the bond of genuine, true, pure, guileless and sincere Christian divine love. It’s a disgrace, a lie, to pray to the Lord for the peace of the whole world and to be separated from one another. » Elder Philotheos Zervakos

The Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church met for a working session at the Synodal Hall of the Patriarchal...

  After Boris Johnson’s election victory last week, the government is being urged to keep its promise to protect persecuted...

  “We are honored that Father Maximos has agreed to serve HCHC as the interim dean of the School of...

  The greatest gift God has made to people is the possibility of union with Him. This gift has become...

Young and old, clergy and laity, gathered at the Archdiocese to sing hymns and carols, sharing in the joy of...

Gnosticism and Christianity The Late Roman era was clearly steeped in Gnosticism, then: a) the world is a prison b) all things human are mere vanity c) life is a dream and a nightmare d) the authentic (what is not a dream) is to be found, ‘elsewhere’, in the ‘inner world’ e) disdain for the body, but salvation for the soul. The Gnostic spirit is not, of course, a phenomenon confined to the Late Roman era. It exists in every age. If it is not an object of interest, that is because it is of a marginal nature. The issue is to see why it was the dominant spiritual position at the time we are examining. It is, for a start, an oversimplified suggestion of an interpretation to ...

All the temptations, whenever they overcome us, do, indeed, injure us and are obstacles on our path. Their sole aim is to erode love. Satan concocts situations and events which, in essence, don’t really exist but which befuddle the minds of those who are either weary, weak, or suffering a temporary withdrawal of Grace. The devil attempts to convince people to believe the misapprehensions and they start to accuse, to become crafty, to undermine, to censure, to suspect others. In this way, the bond of love which brings us to perfection is weakened. The fact that we’re believers is no accident, particularly for us monks. The action of the blessed Divinity intervened personally. Look at what our Jesus says: ‘No-one can ...

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  An event dedicated to the Athonite saint Joseph the Hesychast was held on Monday evening in the northern city...

  The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, on Tuesday received the new deputy Foreign Minister, Konstantinos...

  A draft bill concerning the establishment and operation of places of worship in the country is being readied by...

The Church today venerates the memory of St. Dionysius, who was born and raised on the Ionian island of Zakynthos...

  Members of the tiny Christian minority in Gaza are again prevented this Christmas season from visiting Holy Sites in...

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill, on Tuesday conveyed his congratulations to the Patriarch of All...