Turkey is once again on a U.S. State Department’s “Special Watch List” in the 2020 Annual Report by the United...
On Wednesday, May 13, 2020, the day of Mid-Pentecost, in response to pleas by many Orthodox Christians and with the...
Four Iranian Christian converts who were arrested in February have been sent to Lakan Prison after they were unable to...
Beloved Brothers and Sisters in the Lord, Christ is Risen! Χριστὸς Ἀνέστη! On this Sunday, our Church remembers the meeting...
Georgian priests marched in Tbilisi today, marking ‘Family Purity Day’ backed by the Georgian Orthodox Church, first celebrated in 2014....
Georgia stands firmly on the Orthodox faith, this is our fate, this is our reward, God’s reward to Georgia, –...
The Episcopal Council of the Serbian Orthodox Church in North, Central and South America has issued a statement regarding the heightened...
The time will come when people will lose their minds. And if they see somebody who hasn’t lost their mind, they’ll say ‘You’re crazy’. Because that person will be different from them.
In the Gospel reading for tomorrow (4, 5-42), Saint John the Evangelist transports us to a well in Samaria, one hot noontide. Christ had sent His disciples to the nearby town of Sychar to fetch supplies and a local woman came to the well to draw water. Jesus asked her to give Him some water, and then began one of the most revealing dialogues in Scripture. In this dialogue, Christ reveals the truly divine provenance of His word. It is a discourse that can, indeed, be adapted to human measures of understanding, but it also clearly transcends the criteria with which people judge things. It is a discourse which reinvigorates human life because it offers precisely a new vision of the ...
Upon the blessing of His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, a rite of supplications to the Holy Mother of God for...
ANNOUNCEMENT The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Aksum announces that from Sunday, May 17, the Holy Cathedral of St. Frumentius in...
His Grace Bishop Neofitos of the Diocese of Nyeri and Mt Kenya has expressed his concerns over Covid-19 and Holy...
16th of May 2020 – His Grace Joanikije, Bishop of Budimlye and Niksic, and eight priests of the Orthodox Cathedral...
Considering that, from May 15, 2020, the state of emergency and the applicability of the Military Ordinances that limited essential...
The Holy Metropolis of New Zealand has issued the following announcement regarding the upcoming re-opening of the churches. The announcement...
This Gospel reading is exceptional, loaded with great and sublime truths which the Lord condescended to impart to a dissolute woman, a heretic who had led a reckless life and hailed from Samaria, an abomination for the Jews. The reconciliatory way that Christ relates with this woman gives an example for converse with our fellow men. In this passage, on the one hand, we behold the majesty of God’s love, hunting man along all the paths of his life to work his salvation, and on the other, man even in the extremity of his fall able to co-work with God and ascend to an angelic height. The Jews considered the Samaritans unclean. This is superseded by Christ’s action, so the Apostle Paul ...
The Orthodox Metropolis of Korea has issued an update regarding the construction of the Dormition of the Holy Theotokos Church...
If Moses was excluded from the promised land over one word, how much more will we be deprived of the kingdom of heaven because of our blunt, loud tongues? The Lord Himself says that we’ll have to answer for each and every careless word.
Many other people received miraculous help from Elder Joseph. Father Prokopios, a disciple of harsh Papa-Nikiphoros, once was strongly tempted to abandon his elder. So Papa-Ephraim (who was also a disciple of Papa-Nikiphoros) advised him: “Go over to Elder Joseph, do a prostration at his grave, and you will feel relief from your thoughts.” Father Prokopios did as he said, and he later described what had happened as follows: When I set off from Katounakia, a fragrance enveloped me. When I reached Geronda’s grave, I did a prostration. I told him my thought, prayed, and then returned to Katounakia. On my way back, the same fragrance surrounded me. When I entered my cell that fragrance was gone, but the temptation also disappeared. ...
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