Europe

A Greek Orthodox monastery, founded more than one thousand years ago is thriving just south of Rome, Italy in the epicenter of Catholicism. 

A Christian Orthodox chant was sung in Greek during the Exchange of the Swords ritual at King Charles' Coronation Service at Westinster Abbey.

King Charles III, whose coronation will take place on Saturday in London, has developed strong links with the Greek Orthodox faith over the last decades. His coronation will include Greek Orthodox chanting as a homage to the king’s late father,...

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew said on Tuesday he would work with Lithuania to establish a new branch of the Orthodox Church in the Baltic nation to ensure that believers are no longer under the sole supervision of Moscow. “Today a new...

The Greek Orthodox priest shot earlier this month in the French city of Lyon was the victim of a jealous husband rather than an Islamic terrorist, French prosecutors said on Saturday. Nikolaos Kakavelakis, 52, was shot twice with a sawed-off...

Police in the French city of Lyon released on Sunday an initial suspect in the shooting of a Nikolaos Kakavelakis, a Greek Orthodox priest, and are now questioning a Greek Orthodox parishioner who was recently caught on video scuffling...

Police are hunting a gunman who shot and seriously injured a Greek Orthodox priest in the  city of Lyon, France, French media have reported. Father Nikolaos Kakavelakis, a Greek citizen, was fired on twice at around 4pm local time as...

Turkish authorities on Wednesday demolished a historic Greek Orthodox church in the region of Bursa, north-western Turkey, which had been abandoned. The Georgios Greek Orthodox Church, known as the “Hagia Sophia” of Bursa, was destroyed amid warnings over the safety...

The German government has decided to ban Holy Communion in the form it is given to Orthodox Christians in fear that it is conducive to the spread of coronavirus and endangers public health. Even though the Divine Liturgy in Orthodox...

 The leading European heritage organization Europa Nostra and the European Investment Bank (EIB) Institute stated in a recently issued report that a restoration of the Prinkipo Greek Orthodox orphanage in Istanbul would cost at least 40 million euros. Furthermore, the...

A group of people belonging to the Greek Orthodox community of the island of Tenedos celebrated the Orthodox feast day of Agia (Saint) Paraskevi on Thursday. Tenedos, now known in Turkey as Bozcaada, is an island in the Northeast Aegean...

The Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate has decided to allow a second marriage for Greek Orthodox priests in the event that they are widowed or abandoned by their wife, religious news website Romfea.gr says. The decision, that is considered...

  Turkish media on Friday reported that the Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Constantinople and Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartholomew I, has backed Turkey’s military action in northern Syria. In a Hurriyet newspaper report, the senior clergyman apparently wrote to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan...

The Greek Orthodox Christian community in Istanbul led by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew celebrated Epiphany with the traditional blessing of the waters on Saturday. The Ecumenical Patriarch and Archbishop of Constantinople led the liturgy at the Patriarchal Church of Saint George....

The Archbishop of Albania, Anastasios, led hundreds of Orthodox devotees at the Tirana Cathedral on Monday, where he held the first liturgy as an Albanian citizen. Anastasios thanked Albania’s President Ilir Meta for his decision to be granted citizenship. “I expressed...