Members of the Romanian Orthodox Church’s Holy Synod convened in Bucharest on Monday, with Church hierarchs, among others, proposing a...
The first Sunday school for children with hearing impairment was opened recently in Moscow, coinciding with the International Day of...
The municipality of Limassol, on the occasion of the 1400-year anniversary of the repose of St. John the Merciful, the...
His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America, on Saturday spoke at a banquet in celebration of the 100 years of the...
The Jerusalem Patriarchate celebrated the Feast of the Sunday after the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, held at the Monastery...
Members of the Church of Greece’s permanent Holy Synod convened on Tuesday in Athens, for a second consecutive day this...
Christian persecution remains rampant. Szijjarto said: “In global politics, the fact that Christians are being persecuted is being ignored,” and...
His Eminence Nathanael Symeonides, Metropolitan of Chicago, Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, will present The Ecumenical Value of Reflection on Moral Discernment at...
On Tuesday, September 24, 2019 the Metropolis of Boston held its 19th annual For the Children Golf Tournament at Indian Ridge...
The Florida Gulf Coast city of Tarpon Springs in many ways resembles a Greek island, containing the highest per capita...
His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America concelebrated the Archieratical Divine Liturgy with Rev. Peter Orfanakos and Fr. Steven Saragiannis on...
Any addiction is a bad habit, an illness of the soul, a brain disorder characterized by compulsive engagement in rewarding...
On 29th of September 2019, the 15th Sunday after Pentecost: Metropolitan Vladimir of Chisinau and All Moldova was cordially greeted...
If you want to pray, you have to become a charitable person. Charitable in every sense of the word… When you say a good word to somebody else or you offer something or give alms, then this action moves your soul to prayer. It’s well-established that when charitable people stands in prayer, their prayer goes up to God and is accepted. » Bishop Athanasios of Limassol
The Holy Synod of Antioch will hold a regular session from October 3 to 10, 2019, in Balamand, under the...
Watch Fr John Parker’s speech at the 2nd International Conference on Digital Media and Orthodox Pastoral Care DMOPC18 which took place from 18th-21st June 2018 at the Orthodox Academy of Crete, organized under the High Auspices of His All Holliness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew.
The pages of the Orthodoxia news agency today host an interview by the Archbishop of Mt. Sinai, Faran and Raithu,...
For all Christians, the Lord’s precious Cross is a manifestation of God’s unfailing love for His creation, (Jn. 3, 14-15; 12, 32-33; Col. 1, 20). It is the boast of Christ’s ordeal (Gal. 6, 4) and the invincible weapon against diabolical attacks. With his characteristic clarity, Saint John the Damascan declares that: ‘Every act and miraculous enterprise of Christ is mighty, and divine and wonderful, but the most wonderful of all is His Precious Cross’ (Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith 4, 11, PG, 94, 1128D). And Fotios the Great adds: ‘Christ’s Cross is a trophy raised against the devil; and is the most glorious of all trophies’ (Amfilochia, Question 24, 9, PG 101, 185 D). But the enemies of Christ’s Cross ...
Parents should teach their children absolute obedience before they’re five years old. When a parent says something, the answer should be: ‘Yes, of course’. Unfortunately, parents today don’t know this. They teach their children exactly the opposite and, so, bring them up like that.
Why is so much written and said about the sufferings and tribulations of holy men and women? Because only the saints are considered to be victorious. Can you be victorious without a struggle, without pain and without misfortunes?
