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The winding alleys around Athens Cathedral are full of ecclesiastical sewing workshops. Centered on Apollo Street, some have been supplying priests with vestments for a century or more

In 2024, Easter in the West was celebrated on March 31

The prevailing sense, as it emerged from the statements made by its head, was that the Church would downplay the issue, would not add fuel to the fire, and, at some point join the entire civilized world in accepting that there is nothing untoward about same-sex marriages or the baptism of children from such unions. But the Church's decision to make a fight of it, and its unprecedented snubbing of the President of the Hellenic Republic, have now placed the need for the separation of State and Church firmly center stage.

I’m afraid this business with the Church being all sulky with the State over a matter of state could end up being even more of a joke than the “popular gatherings” over identity cards 25 years ago. For one simple reason: State and Church neither co-govern, nor work together. The Church can have an opinion […]

Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou responded by saying the Hierarchs were welcomed to a customary dinner at the Presidential Palace, if they chose to attend

Truth can only go hand in hand with love. Humans deserve to stand upright and always defend the truth. No theory or ideology can undermine the truth’s role as a guiding principle, a moral compass, a value, a source of exaltation, and a catalyst for liberation. Truth can only go hand in hand with love. […]

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America was once considered a model hierarch: mild-mannered, cosmopolitan, progressive, open-minded, the spiritual descendant of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew. But then shadows began to appear, certain reservations and an inexplicable climate of distrust. On the occasion of his visit to Athens, I asked if we could meet to get some answers to my questions. 

Theophania is a major religious holidays on the Eastern Orthodox calendar, marked by children caroling and an outdoor sanctifying service where a priest tosses a Cross into the waters

Amb. Tsunis also spent the Christmas break in his ancestral village of Platanos, Aitoloakarnania prefecture, in western Greece.