Impact of pandemic on Mount Athos – Few pilgrims visit monasteries
Everything that is happening with pilgrimage tourism has an impact on Mount Athos as there are few visitors to the ...
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Memory of Saints of Mount Athos on 21 June
Mount Athos is the orchard of the Virgin Mary. Many fragrant spiritual flowers have bloomed in the sanctified soils of ...
Handover ceremony of Holy Administration on Mount Athos
The Deputy Foreign Minister for Diaspora Greeks, Kostantinos Vlasis, traveled to Mount Athos to attend the handover ceremony of the ...
Fire on Mount Athos begun to calm down
The fire that broke out on Friday afternoon, the 12th of June, in a forest area at Cape Arapis on ...
Efforts to tackle fire on Mount Athos continue
The situation has improved since a fire broke out on the 12th of June in the afternoon at the site ...
Fire breaks out on Mount Athos
A fire is currently burning on Mount Athos at the site of Cape Arapis in Petrovouni. The fire broke out ...
Greek Deputy Foreign Minister visited the Metropolitan of Ierissos on Mount Athos
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Kostas Vlasis is on Mount Athos to attend the ceremony of changing the "Sacred Administration" ...
Greek Deputy FM to visit Mount Athos and Thessaloniki
The Deputy Foreign Minister, Konstantinos Vlasis, travels to Mount Athos to visit the holy monasteries and attend the handover ceremony ...
Old Testament Holy Trinity icon was donated to church in Bansko
An icon of the Old Testament Holy Trinity, which was donated to the Holy Trinity Church in Bansko, was consecrated ...
Mount Athos reopens to pilgrims today
Pilgrims are allowed to visit Mount Athos today, after having issued the special entry permits, and all the employees are ...
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Memory of Saint Sisoës the Great
The Orthodox Church commemorates today Saint Sisoës the Great († 429), Hieromartyr Asteius, Bishop of Dyrrachium in Macedonia, and...
Contract was signed for promotion and protection of Holy Monastery of Agia Triada Tsangarolon
A contract for a study regarding the protection of the Holy Monastery of Agia Triada Tsangarolon in Chania, Crete,...
Patriarch Kirill: A threat to Hagia Sophia is a threat to the entire Christian civilisation
In a "resounding" intervention with multidimensional nuances on the issue of Hagia Sophia, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow called not...
Metropolitan Epifaniy of Kyiv expresses his support to Ecumenical Patriarch on issue of Hagia Sophia
During his sermon at Cathedral of St. Michael in Kyiv, Metropolitan Epifaniy of Kyiv and All Ukraine, Head of...
Ecumenical Patriarch: We continue to fight for reopening of Halki seminary
In an atmosphere charged with emotion, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew appointed on Sunday, 5 July 2020, Bishop Kassianos of...
Archbishop of Athens: They will not dare to turn Hagia Sophia into mosque
Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens expressed his opinion from Valyra, in Messinia, that the Turks would not dare to turn...