His Beatitude John X Patriarch of Antioch and all the East has released this year’s Nativity Pastoral Letter. Read the...
In former times, God, who is without form or body, could never be depicted. But now when God is seen...
Part 2 of an open letter from Tertullian to Scapula, Proconsul of Africa (i.e. the Roman province around Carthage, not the whole continent), who had begun persecuting Christians, sometime soon after August 14, 212 AD (an eclipse visible in Utica is referred to). Tertullian tells Scapula that Christians honor the emperor, as Christ instructed, and that God doesn’t want sacrifices of blood and gore, but prayer, as Psalm 50 says. He reminds Scapula that there are a great many Christians in his province, a veiled threat that, if things go badly, the emperor will not be happy. At the end, he says that even if Scapula continues to kill Christians, he’s really doing them a favor, since they are happy to ...
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His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America has released his Christmas 2019 Encyclical. Read the full text below: Protocol No. 68/19...
The former press secretary for Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, priest Alexander Volkov, will now head an information...
On Wednesday, December 5/18, 2019, the Patriarchate celebrated the commemoration of our Holy Father Savvas the Sanctified, at the Lavra...
The Patriarch of All Romania, His Beatitude Daniel, this week received the US ambassador to the Romania, Adrian Zuckerman, at...
The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill, on Thursday received the visiting President of Moldova, Igor Dodon....
The Archbishop of Thyateira & Great Britain, His Eminence Nikitas, received a pleasant surprise earlier this month, when he visited...
The months-old Greek government’s intent to raise spending, by 28 percent, for public investments undertaken by the tourism ministry, comes...
The Church today venerates the memory of Ignatius the God-Bearer, or Theophorus, the second Bishop of Antioch. A disciple of...
The Head of the Sebastia Diocese of the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem Archbishop Atallah Hanna was reportedly hospitalised yesterday...
Thousands of supporters of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Montenegro are expected to attend a protest rally on Saturday in...
St. Nicholas, a bishop recognized as a saint in the Orthodox world, was remembered by the Russian Orthodox community Thursday...
Authorities in Greece recorded 591 acts of violence against spaces of religious significance in 2018, an increase of 6 percent...
On Saturday, December 14, 2019, Metropolitan Athenagoras of Belgium officiated the Divine Liturgy at Blessed Empress Theophano Parish in Nijmegen,...
The Romanian Patriarchate on Monday organized several solemn events to mark the 30th anniversary of the fall of communism and...
When you celebrate your nameday, do so with the aim of obtaining mercy from God through the intercessions of your Saint. » Saint Symeon the New Theologian
The month of March in each year has officially been proclaimed as Hellenic Heritage Month by the Government of Ontario....
