EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis). It has been almost 10 yrs since the most sinful and most failed Patriarch of the last 1000 years, Bartholomew, decided to (or was bribed to) get involved in the Ukraine conflict with disastrous results...
OUR MAIN IMAGE: An artistic rendition of the big rejection of Pat. Barthoplomew's advances by Patriarch Gabriel of Bulgaria... EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis). Patriarch Bartholomew believed he could once again rely on the familiar Phanariot playbook—courting the leaders of the...
By Lambros Karpodinis The latest clergy-laity conference is history. The Orthodox Observer triumphantly announced that the 2027-2028 budget was approved. As if there was any doubt. For those who have not attended a clergy-laity conference, let me give you some...
ΕΑΝ ΠΡΟΤΙΜΑΤΕ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ ΠΑΤΗΣΤΕ ΤΗ ΣΗΜΑΙΑ ΣΤΟ ΚΑΤΩ ΜΕΡΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΟΘΟΝΗΣ OUR MAIN PHOTO: Elaine Allen delivers the layered bundle of coverups GOA calls a "budget" while Elpidophoros pretends to be a Christian - forget about Orthodox - leader... By Helleniscope’s...
ΕΑΝ ΠΡΟΤΙΜΑΤΕ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ ΠΑΤΗΣΤΕ ΤΗ ΣΗΜΑΙΑ ΣΤΟ ΚΑΤΩ ΜΕΡΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΟΘΟΝΗΣ OUR MAIN PHOTO: The Most Revd Dame Sarah Mullally, Archbishop of Canterbury, with His Beatitude Theophilos III, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem  By Markos (Helleniscope’s Religion Commentator) It is unclear whether...
EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis).  My advice to Yiannis is very simple: Watch your pockets when the "Gang of thieves of GOARCH" approaches you... Elpidoktonos and Apostolos recently started appearing in baseball but they plan to continue the "theater" of their...
EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis). The resemblance between the ancient Greek rites of Adonis and the Orthodox Christian service of the Epitaphios is one of the most striking examples of ritual continuity in the religious history of the eastern Mediterranean....
ΕΑΝ ΠΡΟΤΙΜΑΤΕ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ ΠΑΤΗΣΤΕ ΤΗ ΣΗΜΑΙΑ ΣΤΟ ΚΑΤΩ ΜΕΡΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΟΘΟΝΗΣ By Helleniscope’s Editorial Team For years, Helleniscope has done its duty. We have investigated. We have documented. We have asked the questions others refused to ask. We have exposed what we...
EDITOR'S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis) Two ceremonial first pitches in Major League Baseball within days of each other—one by Metropolitan Apostolos at an Orioles game and the other by Archbishop Elpidophoros at Yankee Stadium—made for striking images. Yet it is...
source - dinfo.gr   In January 1919, an event took place in Constantinople that most Greeks are unaware of. Four hundred sixty-six years after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople, Hagia Sophia—which had served as a mosque since 1453—was, for a brief moment,...