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Today, Monday 22 of February, His Grace Bishop Elpidios of Kyaneon, at the invitation of Fr Athanasios Giatsios, Parish Priest...
Today, Monday 22 of February, His Grace Bishop Elpidios of Kyaneon, at the invitation of Fr Athanasios Giatsios, Parish Priest...
The dean of the school of economics and management at the Thesslaoniki-based International Hellenic University, Evangelos Christou, referred to the...
The director of the Moscow Patriarchate’s commission on family matters, protection of motherhood and childhood, Maria Studenikina, this week...
Israel announced that it will ease lockdown restrictions, as studies there reveal that the Pfizer vaccine is nearly 86 percent...
The Bishop of Budmilje and Niksic, His Grace Ioannicus, the temporary vicar – or locum tenens – of the...
Official Turkey continued its provocations this week, with the Islamist Erdogan regime threatening to conduct hydrocarbon research in a sea...
Reports in Athens this week have the relevant civil protection authority extending, for another week, pandemic-related restrictions in the...
The Church today commemorates the Finding of the Precious Relics of the Holy Martyrs, in Constantinople’s Eugenius Quarter. The holy...
Russian society has become too accustomed to legalized abortions, but including abortions in national mortality statistics could help change public...
Two ice storms wreaked havoc on West Virginia earlier this month, hitting Wayne Country particularly hard. Holy Cross Monastery (Russian...
The Georgian Orthodox parish of the Iveron Icon of the Mother of God in Toronto was founded in 2010. Now,...
Resplendent photographs of the Greek Presidential Guard, known as Evzones, standing proudly in front of renowned monuments such as the...
Salvation is not the fulfilment of the law. Even miracles cannot guarantee that we shall see the Day of the Lord. It is not miracles that save us. what saves us is our personal relationship with Christ. The multitude thronged Christ and many sought to touch Him, because there came virtue out of Him and healed them all. Yet only some would receive healing and even less would hear from the Lord, ‘Thy faith hath saved thee, go in peace’ (Luke 18:42). The salvation about which He speaks here is not just bodily healing. Salvation is this faith that brings us to a living communion with the One in Whom believe. In our Holy Church we are given many ways ...
On Thursday, February 18, the five women who were shot dead in Kizlyar, Dagestan immediately following the Forgiveness Sunday service...
Nun Iosifia and the small community of the monastery with its workers and benefactors” sign a message of thanks to...
His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America Homily at the Divine Liturgy on the Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee The...
Today’s Gospel reading presents us with two typical kinds of people: a Pharisee and a publican, both of whom are praying in the temple. They are the exact opposites of the society of the time. One was pious and righteous in the eyes of the people, an expert on the Law, a member of the group of the Pharisees, who were the leading religious class. The other was a representative of the class of sinners, of those whose profession was synonymous with rapacity, violence and swindling people out of their possessions. In the view of the whole of society at that time, a publican was the worst of sinners. So what do these two people say in their prayer? Let’s look ...
When things aren’t going well, we’re on our knees and asking the Lord’s help. Once everything’s cleared up, we forget Christ and remember him only in our next difficulty. Dimitrios Panagopoulos
On February 21, 2021, on the Sunday of the Publican and the Pharisee, His Holiness Porfirije, Serbian Patriarch, officiated the...
With the bells of the Holy Patriarchal Monastery of Agios Georgios of old Cairo ringing joyfully and with special splendor...