By Nick Stamatakis I received our main photo today.  My friends know (and many of our readers may have noted) that I was born in Nikea of Pireaus, Greece - informally known as "Kokkinia" (translated as "red soil", "red storm"...
UPDATE: The Patriarchate of Moscow has declared that this video is from an earlier interview of 2016 and it does not reflect the real views of Patriarch Kirill, who has repeatedly expressed in the past his respect for the...
ΣΗΜΕΙΩΣΗ ΣΥΝΤΑΞΗΣ: Στα βάθη της Αφρικής οι αληθινοί υπηρέτες του Χριστού έρχονται κοντά στον Θεό μέσα από τα ανθρώπινα πάθη.  Στην Αμερική, την Ευρώπη και την Αυστραλία οι λεγόμενοι "ιεράρχες" υπηρετούν άλλους θεούς ξεχνώντας και πίστη και παράδοση και...
By Nick Stamatakis The direct connection between ecclesiastical Byzantine music and Greek folk literature and music has been analyzed in-depth by many.  Even more interesting is the endless inspiration it provided for modern artistic performances. If there is one day...
EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis): We received the following from Arthur Piccolo - referring to today's front-page article by the NY Times (you can see it here Cuomo Aides Repeatedly Stalled Release of Nursing Home Death Toll - The New...
ΣΗΜΕΙΩΣΗ ΣΥΝΤΑΞΗΣ: Ενα απλό άκουσμα των δύο αυτών ασμάτων αποδεικνύει και στους πιο ανίδεους την ισχυρή σχέση μεταξύ εκκλησιαστικής, λαϊκής και σύχρονης ελληνικής μουσικής - μια σχέση που βυθίζεται σε αιώνες παράδοσης και πάει πίσω στην αρχαιότητα... Απολαύστε τον...
του Δρος. Δημήτρη Ρομποτή* Η Αυτού Θειοτάτη Παναγιότης, ο Οικουμενικός Πατριάρχης Βαρθολομαίος δεν μπορεί να είναι οικουμενικός μόνο όποτε του κα…πνίση ή όταν είναι να επιβάλλη κατασταστικά και ό,τι άλλο του έρθη στην Εκκλησία των Αμερικών. Δεν υπάρχει part time οικουμενικός, ή...
EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis): The Hymn (Tropario) to Kassiani is considered to be one of the most beautiful (and at the same time the most difficult to perform) pieces of Byzantine music.  As it usually happens in music and...
SOURCE: ORTHOCHRISTIAN.COM We offer our readers a candid story by our contemporary who experienced clinical death and went to hell. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtAI-aanU9c Good afternoon! My name’s Argyris Mitsis. I am from Megali Vrisi of Kilkis District, Greece. I want to share with you...
By Alex Aliferis It is time for the parish members who are the volunteers and the Greek Orthodox Church in the Blue Democrat-run States to stop masks and ridiculous restrictions in church. The Greek Orthodox Churches in Republican-run states like Texas,...