A virtual tour of the Holy Trinity-St. Seraphim Monastery, near the Russian city of Sarov, is now available to the...
The Episcopal council of bishops of the Metropolitanate of Montenegro and the Littoral this week called on citizens in the...
Members of the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople were briefed last week over emergency preservation...
Local residents on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos, which has borne the brunt of a migrant crisis in the...
The Church today venerates the memory of Probus, Andronicus and Tarachus, Martyrs of Tarsus. The holy Martyrs contested for...
On Sunday morning, September 28 / October 11, 2020, Monk Athanasios Koutsoupias was ordained a Deacon during the Divine Liturgy...
The 2020 edition of Byzanfest, the first film festival in history organized exclusively online, will be held between October...
In effort to help the people meet their health needs, in His pastoral visit today, His Grace along with medical...
‘By your patience possess your souls,’ (Lk 21:19) Patience is something we often advise others to implement, yet when it...
Mitsero, Cyprus, October 12, 2020 Parishioners of Panagia Lampadiotissa Church in Mitsero, Cyprus were horrified on Sunday when they arrived...
Hellenic College Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology has announced the appointment of Dr. Diana Demetrulias as HCHC’s Vice...
n the occasion of the Patron Saint-day of the Faculty of the Orthodox Theology of the University of Belgrade, His...
His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America Homily on the Sunday of the Fathers of the 7th Ecumenical Council October 11,...
It’s impossible not to succeed if you believe in God with your whole heart and then make your very best effort.
Today the Church celebrates the memory of the holy Fathers of the 7th Holy and Ecumenical Synod, which was called in Nicaea, Bithynia, in the year 787, and was presided over by Saint Tarasios, the Patriarch of Constantinople. It was attended by three hundred and fifty Orthodox bishops, to whom were added another seventeen hierarchs, and also boasted the presence of one hundred and thirty six monks who had suffered terrible persecution under the iconoclast emperors Leo III and his son Konstantinos V. The particpants anathematized the heretics who, for more than fifty years had forbidden Orthodox Christians to honor the venerable icons of Christ and His saints, supposedly because this constituted idolatry. The most reliable truth At first sight, today’s epistle ...
On Sunday, September 28 / October 11, 2020, His Beatitude the Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos officiated the Divine Liturgy at...
‘The seed is the Word of God’. The Lord often spoke in similes and parables. One of the most important of the parables is that of the sower. A farmer sowed his seed in a field and it fell on four different places: the road, a rock, among thorns and on good soil. Some of the seed which fell on the good soil bore thirty times as much fruit, some sixty times and some a hundred times (Mark 4, 20). Let’s have a look at how the word of God bears fruit. The explanation of the parable. The Lord interpreted the parable and said that the good soil is those people who have good and pure hearts (Luke 8, 15), people who ...
Unknown vandals broke into the church in Mitsero in the Nicosia district overnight on Saturday and sprayed icons with five-pointed...
Archbishop Chrysostomos has undergone spine surgery in Athens, it was announced on Saturday. A statement from the archbishopric said his...
On October 8, 2020, the day of the passing away of St. Sergius the Abbot of Radonezh, the Chinese Patriarchal...
