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Paschal Episcopal Encyclical 2025

By His Eminence Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden and All Scandinavia

Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome & Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to the plenitude of the Church

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew's message

Resurrection with…Molotov bombs in Neos Kosmos! (photos)

Lagoumitzi Street caught fire in front of the Church of the Ascension immediately after 'Christ is Risen' was chanted

Christ is Risen: Joyful scenes in Athens, Thessaloniki, Corfu & Nafplio (photos)

The Resurrection was celebrated with reverence throughout Greece – The Easter message of the Archbishop of Athens and All Greece – The journey of the Holy Light from Jerusalem to the Metochi of the Holy Sepulchre

Easter Sunday: A journey through the customs & traditions of Greece

From the authentic island feasts in Kea and Olympos of Karpathos, to the Vespers of Love chanted in the Tsakonian language in Leonidio, and the roasting of lamb on the spit in pits in Amfikleia

Zelensky says Russian attacks on Ukraine continue, despite Putin’s “Easter truce”

The temporary ceasefire will last from 6:00 PM on Holy Saturday until midnight on Sunday, April 20 - Kiev and Moscow exchanged more than 500 prisoners of war

The Holy Light has arrived in Greece (videos-photos)

It will be transported throughout Greece with special flights operated by AEGEAN, Olympic Air and SKY express

Putin declared an Easter truce after reports that Trump will recognize the annexation of Crimea

Ceasefire until midnight on Sunday – Kyiv has not yet responded to the proposal

The three Gallows – By H.E. Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden

The solemn and sacred evening of Holy Friday offers me the opportunity to reflect upon the book Night by the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel — a painful autobiographical account of his survival as a teenager in the Nazi death camps. In this harrowing work, Wiesel recounts: “One day the SS hanged three people — two […]

Holy Week in the Monasteries of Greece: The Holy Monastery of Panagia Elona above the Dafnonas Gorge

Near Leonidio, the Holy Monastery is built on the steep cliff of Mount Parnon, at the spot where, in 1300 AD, two hermits saw a light and, as they approached, beheld the icon of the Virgin Mary

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