The Department of Religious Education (DRE), in collaboration with the Metropolis of Pittsburgh Religious Education Committee, is pleased to announce the launch of a new monthly newsletter support Orthodox Christian families in nurturing faith-centered homes. […] The post Department of Religious Education, Metropolis of Pittsburgh launch ‘In the Home’ newsletter appeared first on Orthodox Observer.
As part of the initiatives for the promotion of the Greek language and culture undertaken by the Department of Greek Education of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, headquartered in New York City and legally represented by […] The post GOARCH Department of Greek Education launches new professional development program appeared first on Orthodox Observer.
Just two months ago, at the end of November, global news organizations paid attention — like Christians from various traditions — as His Holiness Pope Leo and His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew met in Türkiye […] The post Toward a common date of Easter appeared first on Orthodox Observer.
An International Event with Wider Ramifications The Huffington Ecumenical Institute at Hellenic College Holy Cross, in collaboration with the Missions Institute of Orthodox Christianity (also under the auspices of HCHC), is organizing an international conference […] The post A theological conference on a global luminary: Archbishop Anastasios of Albania (1929–2025) appeared first on Orthodox Observer.
Phillip Gene “Phil” Foote—an American educator whose decades-long commitment to Greece helped shape English-language learning at the American Farm School in Thessaloniki and later brought U.S. students to Greek villages—died peacefully on Friday, January 30, […] The post Phillip Gene “Phil” Foote, American educator committed to Greece, passes away appeared first on Orthodox Observer.
Saint Chrysanthos, who was from Alexandria, had been instructed in the Faith of Christ by a certain bishop. His father, who was a senator by rank and a pagan, had him shut up in prison for many days; then, seeing the unchanging disposition of his mind, he commanded that a certain young woman named Daria […]
Saint Alexios was born in old Rome of illustrious parents named Euphemianus and Aglais, and at their request was joined to a young woman in marriage. However, he did not remain with her even for one day, but fled to Edessa, where he lived for eighteen years. He returned to Rome in the guise of […]
Saint Christodoulos, who was from the region of Nicaea of Bithynia, was the son of Theodore and Anna, and was given the name John. He assumed the monastic habit in his youth and was renamed Christodoulos ("slave of Christ" in Greek). At first, he lived the ascetical life in various places, then he received permission […]
This Saint, whose name means "blessed," was born in 480 in Nursia, a small town about seventy miles northeast of Rome. He struggled in asceticism from his youth in deserted regions, where his example drew many who desired to emulate him. Hence, he ascended Mount Cassino in Campania and built a monastery there. The Rule […]
For more than one hundred years the Church of Christ was troubled by the persecution of the Iconoclasts of evil belief, beginning in the reign of Leo the Isaurian (717-741) and ending in the reign of Theophilus (829-842). After Theophilus's death, his widow the Empress Theodora (celebrated Feb. 11), together with the Patriarch Methodius (June […]
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