The first Palestinian American to serve as a US Congress member, Justin Amash, said on Friday that he lost several family members after an Israeli airstrike hit a Greek Orthodox church in Gaza.
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Discussing a wide range of topics, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios, the spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians, also referenced the unfolding crisis in Israel and Gaza and the need to protect the Christian presence in the Holy Land during their meeting in Athens on Wednesday.
Greek church leaders expressed their prayers on Wednesday for the atrocities in the Middle East.
A metropolitan bishop and his deputy have received a 30-month prison sentence, suspended for three years, after being found guilty of the unlawful removal of valuable religious objects from a church.
A senior cleric was seen on Friday afternoon blessing flood victims from a tractor in a small village in central Greece, a region that flooded following two days of unprecedented rainfall.
In response to the conspiracy theories that have led to protests, mostly by very religious people and some clerics, over the new identity cards, the Permanent Holy Synod of Church of Greece said in a statement Wednesday that it is a matter for the country’s judiciary and concerns the administrative issue of state-citizen relations.
The Church of Greece has said it will issue an opinion on the new identity cards this week.
Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomeos expressed on Wednesday his support to those affected by the wildfires that have been raging for days across Greece, describing them as a “tragedy”.
Anthimos, the senior Greek Orthodox cleric in Thessaloniki in northern Greece, has tendered his resignation as conveyed through an official announcement on Tuesday.
Who should we believe? The prime minister, who made a commitment to pass legislation allowing same-sex marriage, or the high-ranking clerics who never miss an opportunity to vent their homophobic vitriol?
Archbishop Elpidophoros of America issued an encyclical on Saturday lamenting the conversion of Istanbul’s iconic Hagia Sophia into a mosque in 2020.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met with Archbishop of Elpidophoros of America on Wednesday. The prime minister reiterated his support for the spiritual, social, and educational activities of the Archbishopric and thanked Elpidophoros for his service to the Greek community.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was received by Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios in Istanbul, Turkey, on Saturday morning.
A quarter of a century ago, in June 1998, the sixth section of the Council of State was examining a seemingly paradoxical case: The Theological School of the University of Athens was refusing to award a degree to one of its graduates because he refused to take the established religious oath. The graduate, who probably […]
Russia’s presence in the presidency of the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly on Orthodoxy (IOA), an international institution with an active role in promoting the values of the Orthodox Christian tradition in contemporary European and world affairs, came to an end on Saturday in Sithonia, Halkidiki northern Greece, with the election of a Polish MP, Yevgeny Chikvin, widening the chasm with the Russia on the religious level even more.
Something of a war has broken out in the Church of Greece after an Athens priest enlisted the help of two girls from his congregation to fill in for the altar boys in the Pentecostal liturgy.
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