On the Third Sunday of Lent, the Orthodox Church pauses to reflect on a powerful…
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ATHENS, GREECE – A Greek journalist, Dimitris Alikakos, has been acquitted of all charges following…
Byzantine flags, which were a lot in number, had various symbols and colours. The flag…
Today marks the fifth anniversary of the passing of His Eminence Archbishop Stylianos Harkianakis, the…
The Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Mexico has a new leader: Metropolitan Iakovos. His official enthronement…
Melbourne’s Evangelismos Church, also known as The Annunciation of Our Lady, is getting ready to…
In a landmark moment for LGBTQ+ rights in Greece, a Greek novelist and his partner…
A long-awaited dream became reality for a Greek lesbian couple in Athens on Thursday when…
In a move escalating tensions, Church authorities in Corfu imposed a religious ban on two local…
On this rare leap year day, the Orthodox community celebrates the 84th birthday of Ecumenical…
Renowned for being the ‘opal capital of the world’, the small outback town of Coober…
Thousands of individuals congregated in Athens on Sunday to protest against the legalization of same-sex…
Ocean Funerals is a new funeral company owned and operated by Greek-Australian Raphael Demirgelis. The company specialises in Greek funerals
Thessaloniki, Greece – On Holocaust Remembrance Day, a high-ranking Orthodox Church official issued a scathing…
In a landmark move for LGBTQ+ rights in Greece, the leader of the main opposition…
Greece’s center-right government announced on Thursday that it intends to fulfill its commitment to legalize…
Throughout its long history Orthodoxy has been linked – or, better, infused – with ethnicity; and this for multiple reasons.
“My goal was to create a church that creates the illusion of motion. It feels like the Holy Spirit moves around its axis, God himself moves around its axis, as the church has no obvious front and back,” Greek architect Costas Papatheodorou said about his creation – the Orthodox church of Agia Fotini of Mantinea – which has become known as the second most mysterious church in the world.
The komposkini is a woolen prayer rope used by Orthodox monks and many Orthodox believers.…