Pentecost is a Christian religious feast, often credited with being the birthday of the Christian Church.
It is a feast 50 days after Easter to celebrate the gift of the Holy Spirit, a concept crucial to the idea of the Trinity: namely the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit and the way Christians understand God. [...]
A new exhibition featuring a number of stolen Cypriot treasures and antiques opened at the Makarios Foundation Byzantine Museum in Nicosia.
Church relics that have been repatriated after being stolen by Turkish antiquities dealer Aydin Dikmen, are among the items on display at the exhibition, which opened on Monday 19th January.
Archbishop Chrysostomos II of the Church of [...]
The religious feast of Epiphany was celebrated throughout Greece on Tuesday 6th January with the traditional Blessing of the Waters ritual, whereby Orthodox priests toss a cross attached to a rope in the waters, usually followed by teens and young men diving into the frigid sea to retrieve the symbol of the Christian faith.
The [...]
Jordan withdraws support for Orthodox church’s Holy Synod
The government in Amman yesterday withdrew its approval of the Holy Synod at the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate in Jerusalem, claiming that the makeup of the holy council contravenes a 1958 Jordanian law, which requires all council members to have Jordanian nationality.
This decision comes just 18 months after Jordan [...]
November 16, 2008 | Posted in
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Greek Orthodox Patriarch says Armenians to blame for Sunday’s violence
The head of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate in Jerusalem, Theophilos III, on Monday blamed Armenian monks for the widely publicized fist fight with Greek clergy in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher a day earlier.
“The Armenians are constantly provoking us” he told NET TV. “They claim [...]
November 12, 2008 | Posted in
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A valuable icon stolen back in 1978 from the St. John the Baptist Monastery in Serres, northern Greece, has been handed over to the Greek Embassy Education Attaché in London.
The “Deposition of Christ from the Holy Cross” Byzantine-era icon, with an estimated value of one million pounds, was returned to the Greek authorities by [...]
Children must still attend
Religious education lessons remain compulsory for all Orthodox schoolchildren, Education and Religious Affairs Minister Evripidis Stylianidis said yesterday following a visit to a school in Fthiotida, where he met with the local Bishop. “Exceptions may only be granted in the case of non-Orthodox believers, who are usually foreigners” Stylianidis said.
According to a [...]
