During this difficult time of the COVID-19 pandemic, His Eminence Metropolitan Methodios has been assuring the Clergy and Faithful of...
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The Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Chicago announced today the creation of a COVID-19 Parish Relief Fund to support parishes under significant financial...
Greek government spokesperson comments on the Church of Greece’s decision for ‘closed-door’ services
We are entering the most crucial phase in the battle against the coronavirus, said government spokesperson Stelios Petsas at a...
The Russian Orthodox Youth Committee this week announced that the organization remains fully active in providing support and assistance to...
The Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II, this week emphasized that the Church’s doors cannot close,...
The Archdiocese of Great Britain and Thyateira continued its outreach program, providing both material assistance and psychological support to those...
Greek shipping and island policy minister, Yannis Plakiotakis, on Thursday spoke to the Orthodoxia News Agency via Skype. Among others,...
The Archdiocese of Athens has announced that all of its charitable institutions and social structures will continue to cooperate with...
ANNOUNCEMENT Wellington 1st of April 2020 To the Clergy, the Monastic Brotherhoods and Sisterhoods and the reverent plentitude of the...
Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana, Durrës and All Albania shares his perspective in this E-interview about the way churches are adapting, both in Albania and worldwide, to the COVID-19 pandemic. As we pray for the researchers trying to find a treatment, churches can also emphasize our duty to stay at home while, at the same time, freeing ourselves from fear and anxiety. We must find ways to assist the sick directly or indirectly, as we prepare for Easter, and open our hearts to the light of hope. In what ways is Your Beatitude seeing churches adapt to life amid the coronavirus outbreak? In Albania, and worldwide. Archbishop Anastasios: When we were informed about the spread of the pandemic of COVID-19 in Albania, we addressed our people (on 12 ...
Our starting point’s always wrong. Instead of starting from ourselves, we always want to change other people first and then ourselves. If only each of us would begin from our self, peace would prevail.
Apart from its usual dedication to the Menaion (the commemoration of the lives of the Saints) and the early custom...
The Holy Synod of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece on Wednesday, after a marathon session, announced that services...
Over the last several weeks and months, the world has been gripped by the turmoil that the Coronavirus pandemic has wrought upon its seven billion people. Whether affected directly or not, we all have been impacted by its physical, social, psychological, and financial punch. This pandemic will be remembered by historians as one of the major global events of the twenty-first century. One of its most paralyzing fangs of this invisible enemy has been the feeling of isolation that the necessary practice of social distancing has had on people. Out of protection for ourselves and love and concern for others, sensible and responsible people have had to physically separate themselves from other people outside of their immediate household. In the news, we ...
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Greece’s culture ministry this week submitted a case file to UNESCO requesting that the annual religious celebrations on the...
The Holy Eparchial Synod of the Archdiocese of America convened on Tuesday via teleconference, in order to be briefed...
The Metropolitan of Zambia, His Eminence Ioannis, this week called on the faithful to strictly follow public health officials’...
The Metropolitan of Veria and Naoussa, His Eminence Panteleimon, on Tuesday officiated at the service of the Great After-Feast...
