There are some things that require no explanations, no analyses and no arguments; the truth is so blindingly obvious that only expediency and guilty feelings would be reasons for seeing them otherwise. What is under discussion here is the deliberate termination of pregnancy, and it really does seem astonishing that there are people, some of them ‘prominent’, who flaunt the fact that they’ve had an abortion. It’s certain, however, that if the same people saw a small child, an infant, being abused, they’d be the first to condemn the perpetrators and, in terms of human law, they’d be right to do so. A child, a human person, has unique worth from the moment of its conception. From when it begins to ...
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Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Costas Vlassis begins an official visit today to Egypt on Thursday. Vlassis, who holds the expatriate...
The Archbishop of America, His Eminence Elpidophoros, this week received the Bishop of Diokleia, His Grace Metodije at the Archdiocese’s...
The Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, His Beatitude Ieronymos, on Thursday received board members of the Economic Chamber. The...
The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, visited the Holy Metropolis of Vryoula this week, in coastal...
Greek parliamentarians participating in the Inter-parliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy on Thursday were received by the President of the Republic, Prokopis...
Consecutive and controversial judicial rulings over the recent period have chipped away at the concepts “national” and “religious” consciousness in...
On 10 February 2020, Archpriest Nikolay Balashov, vice-chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations (DECR), met with...
While Orthodox Christians everywhere love the Mother of God and turn to her in prayer in times of need, one...
The head of the OCU discussed with the South African Ambassador to Ukraine the possibility of using the SAR’s experience...
On February 9, 2020, the Sunday of the Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia, His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion of...
The chairman of the Department of External Church Relations expressed hope that this summit meeting will be helpful to find...
The following are Metropolitan Joseph’s opening remarks at the annual Clergy Seminar for the Diocese of Los Angeles, held in Alhambra, CA...
On Monday, February 10, 2020, Bishop Metodije of Diokleia visited Archbishop Elpidophoros of America at the Archdiocese Headquarters, to discuss...
A talk on “the role of the Ecumenical Patriarchate within the World Council of Churches and the importance of dialogue...
Many people approached the Lord, but few decided to follow Him. Lots of people read the Gospel, rejoice in its sublime messages and are moved by its holy teachings, but few decide to live in accordance with the Gospel law.
‘… and how from infancy you have known the sacred letters, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus’. One of the most beautiful phrases used by Saint Paul for the word of God is the ‘sacred letters’. The notion of the sacred is out-of-date in these times. It’s associated with the absolute, the metaphysical, with something that has the character of authority. It’s a person, an idea, a value, a way which cannot be questioned and demands absolute respect. The persons of religion are sacred. The symbols and rituals of religion are sacred. Sacred, too, are those who sacrifice their life and existence for the good of others. There is a measure of the ...
We must never forget that reality is our game. Do not say: ‘I do not know what is right, therefore...
We enter today the period of the Great Fast in preparation for Pascha. We are called to repent, to forgive,...