World News
July 21, 2017
The beaches of Aegean Islands have been featured in Travel and Leisure magazine for decades, but a recent article and photo spread acknowledges that most people know Patmos as the place where St. John the Theologian wrote the Book of Revelation. Read More
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July 20, 2017
The first ever, national study on evangelization and outreach in Orthodox parishes in the United States has been released by the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the USA. Read More
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July 17, 2017
Father Ioan Irineu Craciun, who arrived in Ireland from Romania in 1981 as a postgraduate student, is preparing his parish to move into its new home on Western Way – a road that leads down to Broadstone in Phibsboro. After seven years of worshipping in a prefabricated industrial unit in Blanchardstown, Romanian Orthodox community is ready to blossom. Read More
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July 14, 2017
The 2018 Greek Orthodox Folk Dance & Choral Festival (FDF) will take place January 11-14 in San Francisco. FDF is usually held over President’s Day Weekend in February, but next year it will be celebrated over the Martin Luther King Jr. out of respect for weekend Great Lent, which begins February 19, 2018. Read More
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July 13, 2017
On June 27 Pope Francis welcomed a delegation from the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople to the Vatican. In his greetings, the Pope remarked Both churches must strive to return to their roots where they once “shared in the same eucharistic table, preserving together the same truths of faith while cultivating a variety of theological, spiritual and canonical traditions.” Read More
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July 11, 2017
On Monday, June 5, 2017, the Holy Monastery of the Transfiguration of the Savior in Gapyeong held the inauguration of a three-day Byzantine Icons exhibition. The exhibition presented the works of the students of the intensive program of Hagiography courses, which took place from May 1st to June 5th . The lessons were taught this year by the Professor of Byzantine iconography, Mr. Sozos Yiannoudis, who came from Greece exclusively for this purpose. Read More
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July 10, 2017
Reflecting upon the words of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ: “'I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me”, the college age students of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA prayerfully responded to our Lord’s call and offered themselves to serve as Mission Team Members of the UOC of the USA to the Ukrainian Orphanages during 2-17 June, 2017. Read More
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July 7, 2017
The visit of His Beatitude our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos at the Ecumenical Patriarchate and later on to Cappadocia began on Friday, 3rd/ 16th June 2017. His Beatitude was invited by the All-Holy Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomeos for this visit, as the latter has undertaken pilgrimage tours to Churches and Holy Monasteries of our nation which have been deserted since the exchange of populations in 1922. Read More
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July 3, 2017
Moving photos in the Atlantic reveal the beauty and mystery of the little-known but ancient enclave of Eastern Christianity in Ethiopia. Read More
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June 30, 2017
The Baltimore Sun shines a spotlight on the effect converts are having on the Orthodox Church in the USA. The article notes their diverse backgrounds as that they include former Evangelicals in search of the historic Church, people described as analytical Christians who are looking for something they can grasp more firmly than what they were raised with, and others seeking a fuller, richer tradition. Read More
