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Holy Thursday and the Last Supper is the culmination of the Divine Drama in the Greek Orthodox Church: The last day of Jesus Christ on earth

As Kuwait authorities have temporarily closed mosques and changed the Muslim call to prayer to deal with the spread of coronavirus, the Greek Orthodox Church is refusing to take drastic steps as at least 190 cases and three fatalities...

The Holy Synod of the Orthodox Church of Greece issued a statement on Monday referring to the Covid19 coronavirus outbreak, maintaining that Holy Communion does not transmit the virus. The new, controversial statement comes after days of heated public debate...

The small church of Hagios Georgios (Saint George) near the village of Moria on Lesvos was vandalized by unknown assailants on Monday. Some local people are blaming a group of migrants who live at the nearby camp for the act....

The liturgy of Holy Thursday in the Greek Orthodox Church is marked by two major events: the Last Supper of Christ with His disciples and the betrayal by Judas Iscariot. The Last Supper is the ultimate revelation of God’s redeeming...

The Holy Synod of the Church of Greece on Tuesday rejected the deal which had been worked out between Archbishop Ieronymos and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in November of 2018. The agreement between the two men had included the...

On December 28, the Greek Orthodox Church commemorates the death of the Holy 20,000 Martyrs of Nicomedia who were burned to death at the order of the Roman Emperor in the year 303. At the turn of the fourth century,...

The congregation in a Greek Orthodox church have spoken of a 'miracle' as they witnessed a wheelchair-bound woman getting to her feet after a blessing from a local priest. The incident occurred near the town of Lagadas, northern Greece, as...

Every baptism is a happy occasion but a recent ceremony in the religious enclave of Greece's Mount Athos was a little extra special. A tribal king who had travelled all the way from the West African nation of Ivory Coast...

Prince Charles met the head of Greece’s Orthodox Church Archbishop Ieronymos on Thursday during the second day of his official visit to Greece. Ieronymos briefed the heir to the British throne about the charity work of the Church and emphasized...

St. Patrick may be thought of almost universally as a Roman Catholic figure, but a church in Grevena, in northern Greece, has always celebrated Ireland's beloved patron saint. While revelers in Irish pubs in Athens, Thessaloniki and elsewhere paint the...

The next Holy and Great Synod of the Orthodox Church will take place at the Orthodox Academy of Crete, in Kolymbari, west of Chania. More than 400 bishops representing 300 million Greek Orthodox Christians from around the world will...

Greek authorities were able to immediately solve a case regarding two church burglaries that took place on the Greek island of Paros on September 22, 2015. A 31-year-old Greek national was arrested on Wednesday afternoon, September 23rd. Authorities have already...

Interim Economy Minister in Greece's caretaker government; Nikos Christodoulakis spoke with Ieronymos II; the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece, on Tuesday, assuring him that he had never planned or even considered imposing additional taxes on the Church. Christodoulakis said there was no...

The alleged tax privileges of the Greek Orthodox Church has been a sensitive issue in Greece for years. Greek Interim Finance Minister Nikos Christodoulakis recently brought the issue to the forefront when he claimed on Sunday that the Church has not...