The semi-autonomous Orthodox monastic community of Mount Athos has again opened its borders to pilgrims, with the ceiling set...
The permanent Holy Synod will again convene on Tuesday, the first session since churches and cathedrals in the country...
Debate begins on Monday in a relevant Greek Parliament committee over a draft bill regarding changes in the east...
Now is the Judgment of this World In the last chapters of the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, the Lord Himself warns us in the most intense and frightening way about the catastrophes which will precede His Coming. He foretells that that evil will be uncontrollable and people’s afflictions will be so unbearable that they will ask the mountains to cover them, so that they may not see the terrible day of the Lord’s coming: ‘There shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people. And they shall fall by the edge of the sword,’ ‘men’s hearts shall fail them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth’. Even the affliction of ...
On Sunday, May 18/31, 2020, Sunday of the commemoration of the Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Synod, who condemned...
His Grace Bishop Arsenije of Nis celebrated the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy on the feast day of the Ascension of...
Metropolitan Porfirije: The earthquake was a temptation that enabled us to discover something about ourselves, about the meaning of life,...
If the Lord allows people to be tormented by sicknesses then He’ll give the strength to bear them. Those who suffer illness with patience and gratitude to God are crowned as martyrs and strivers. Just as wax can’t accept a stamp unless it’s first warmed and softened, so the soul can’t take upon it the stamp of virtue unless it’s tested with labors and illnesses.
Children’s Day is a national holiday celebrated in Romania and it is held on June 1 every year. Children’s Day...
There are feasts in out tradition that don’t last long. For example, the Lord’s Ascension, for many people, is Christ’s return to heaven, leaving us alone to deal with what He bequeathed us: the Gospel, the life of the Church and the faith. And, looking up, we often wonder why He doesn’t come back down to order our lives. We have the impression that He’s forgotten us and that He Himself is waiting for the Second Coming to provide a definitive answer to the problem of death, to the problem of evil, to the problem of misery among people and in the world. The Ascension is associated with a return to the ‘Our Father’ and ‘Through the prayers’, with the ...
Beginning Sunday, May 31, Poland will remove the limit on the number of people allowed during Church services earlier introduced...
Α message from Andrea Zecy, from Kansas City, KS: “Εvery single dollar that you donate benefits those in need....
5 / 28 MAY 2020: In connection with the easing of strict restrictive measures by the Swiss government on 28th...
Beginning Sunday, May 31, Poland will remove the limit on the number of people allowed during Church services earlier introduced...
The opening ceremony for the main church of the Russian Armed Forces has been scheduled for June 22 of this...
Archbishop Elpidophoros (Lambriniadis) of America has commented on the death of American citizen George Floyd last Monday, 25 May in...
05/29/2020 Washington, D.C. (International Christian Concern) – On May 20, three Christian families in India’s Chhattisgarh state were brutally attacked and...
Every year, the Archons of the Metropolis of Chicago, led by Regional Commanders John Manos and Gus Pablecas, team up with the...
Opposition Movement for Change (KINAL) leader Fofi Gennimata on Friday urged the Greek government to ask that the UN secretary...
This Sunday’s is dedicated to the holy memory of the 318 God-bearing Fathers of the Church who participated in the...
