Icons depicting Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary, have been shot in two churches on the northern Aegean island of...
Thurs., Jan. 9, 2020 6:00 p.m. New Year’s Traditional Vassilopita cutting for the following Hellenic American Professional organizations: Hellenic Lawyers...
One time, a well-known lawyer told me: ‘I had a case involving a lady of very high standing, an exceptional person, extremely well-educated. But she didn’t go to church, didn’t confess, didn’t believe. I was able on one occasion to persuade her to come with me to see Elder Porfyrios. She came only out of deference to my feelings. We went into the Elder’s cell and I made a start with introducing her to him, but he said immediately: ‘Leave. Leave at once. Get yourself home!’ I was astounded and didn’t know what to make of the Elder’s behavior. I said: ‘But Elder, this lady and I have come to see you, to get your blessing’, and so on. He answered: ‘Leave. Go now or ...
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The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, expressed his condolences to the families of the 176...
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis cited the very significant role of the Church, speaking in Washington D.C. to representatives...
Thousands of people participated in a peaceful rally in Belgrade this week to decry the persecution faced by the...
The annual grand Christmas celebration at the Kremlin was held on Wednesday, with the Patriarch of Moscow and All...
The Church today venerates the memory of Eustratios, the Wonder-worker. St. Eustratios was born in the eight century in northwest...
What follows is a story about the uprooting of Greeks from their ancestral homeland in Pontos, the Black Sea coastal region. Greeks began trading here in about 1,000 BC, with the first permanent settlements being established some 200 years later. So this region was as much a part of the Greek world as mainland Greece, until the events of the early 20th century. The collapse of the Ottoman Empire saw the rise of the nationalist Young Turks, but also the Balkan Wars. Then came World War I. The Treaty of Lausanne (1923) arranged for an exchange of populations between Greece and Turkey. This could hardly have come at a worse time. In other circumstances, many Pontic Greeks would have gone ...
There’s no greater torment than thought itself. There’s no hell greater than thought which is cut off from the Creator and God of all thought, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Divine Word. Human thought without our Lord Christ cannot understand either itself or the world around it.
NEW YORK – The 8th annual celebration of Hellenic Heritage & Dance, PARATHOSI 2020, of the Direct Archdiocesan District of...
WASHINGTON – His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America attended tonight a State Department reception in honor of the Prime Minister...
Boredom is the grandson of depression, and laziness is the daughter. To send her away, labor actively – do not...
The most popular destinations for Romanian pilgrims in 2019 were Greece, the Holy Land, Jordan and Egypt, according to the...
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The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, His Holiness Kirill, on Tuesday visited the St. Vladimir children’s hospital in...
The visiting president of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, this week visited the Damascus -based Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of...
Members of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Greece’s Holy Synod convened today in the Greek capital, the first session...
The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese and Orthodox faithful have stepped up efforts to collect and distribute aid towards wildfire-stricken residents...
