Greek composer and conductor, Themos Mexis, has been appointed Musical Director of the new National…
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Churches in Greece will be open for individual prayer, while services will be allowed with…
Greek government spokesperson Stelios Petsas, last week announced that churches will be open to the…
Greek Orthodox Christians in a Syrian town have celebrated their annual lighting of a Christmas…
A 76-year-old monk died from complications of COVID-19 on Mount Athos and six monasteries are…
Despite international condemnation over the decision to change Hagia Sophia from a museum into a mosque,…
Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece was discharged from Athens’ Evangelismos Hospital, where he…
The health condition of Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece, was described as “satisfactory” in…
A firm believer in God, Yianni has spent the last decade ‘finding himself’, and through that delicate and life-altering process, he came across Orthodox Christianity and the Greek Culture. He has embraced the Greek community and culture with such respect and admiration, that you’d think he was born Greek, even though he is from an Asian background. This is Yianni’s story about his decision to convert to Greek Orthodoxy.
The Feast of the Entrance into the Temple of Our Most Holy Lady the Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary is celebrated on November 21 each year. The Feast commemorates when as a young child, the Virgin Mary entered the Temple in Jerusalem.
Serbian Orthodox Patriarch Irinej, who had been hospitalized with COVID-19 in a Belgrade hospital since…
Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece, who was admitted to Evangelismos Hospital for precautionary…
One of the oldest extant hand-written gospels, will be returned to the monastery it was…
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, a particularly high number of visitors, and not only Greeks, was…
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I and visited the…
Father Metropolitan Ioannis of Langadas took his last breathe this morning and passed away. Regarding…
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met with the Archbishop of Athens and all of Greece,…
Following by his mother’s shock cancer diagnosis, Chris Vlahonasios founded the Byzanfest Orthodox Film Festival as a way to “let light shine through that cloud.” Chris shares with Greek City Times the ‘behind the scenes’ of Byzanfest 2020, gives the run down on this year’s award winners, and imparts important messages of faith to our youth.
The gunman who shot Greek Orthodox priest Nikolaos Kakavelakis outside the Church of Anunciation in…
For Elyssa Vickers, converting to Orthodoxy was like “finding a home, somewhere that I belong”. Here is her beautiful story.