ModeOfLife Become love as God exhorts us, for this is the true starting point for changing your life and the world. For it is love that will bring respect, justice and equity into the world, not our personal opinion of what justice or equity is.
Metropolitan Avgoustinos (Kantiotes) of Florina [1] Beloved in Christ, I would like to ask you a question; I ask it of myself and I ask it of you. Are we prepared to celebrate the great feast of Christmas?
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Patriarch Kirill : “Society and Government Die When People Start Pursuing Self-Interest at the Expense of the Commonwealth”
November 4, 2014. His Holiness, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, delivered a sermon on the occasion of Unity Day in Russia Dear Brothers and Sisters! On Unity Day we remember one of the most tragic periods in the history of our Fatherland, when our country was as good as on the verge of extinction from the world’s map: …
Read More »VANISHING CYPRUS: GLORIOUS REVOLUTION of the MIND
By Andreas C Chrysafis October, 2014 (No61) © It all starts with one idea – the power of the mind! An idea actually never dies but blossoms into a powerful force that can make radical changes or it can equally grow into a powerful bad idea to be used for evil purposes. The world has seen both and yet …
Read More »Boy, 14, raped girl aged ten after watching online porn
Judge attacks corrosive effect of websites as he sends teenager to secure unit for four years By Lucy Osborne for the Daily Mail – 13 August 2014 A judge condemned the corrosive effect of online pornography after a schoolboy who visited vile websites abducted and raped a girl of ten. The boy, who was 14 at the time, stopped his …
Read More »Vanishing Cyprus: Dear Mr President
By Andreas C. Chrysafis Dear Mr. President, with all due respect, things in Cyprus are not going as well as you so passionately promised. Your election campaign-pledges never actually materialized. We are sure you meant well but somewhere along the way your party-dogmatism failed to bring about the desired economic and social stability in the country. Citizens certainly recognize that …
Read More »Baptism in ruins of Arab village disrupted by Jewish neighbours
Shlomi residents called out racial slurs, say Israeli Arabs; Shlomi official sympathizes with residents, calling baptism ‘provocation.’ By Jack Khoury | April 28, 2014 A baptism ceremony held in the ruins of the uprooted Arab village of al-Bassa on Sunday was disturbed by several residents of Shlomi, the Jewish town that was built over part of the village’s lands. A …
Read More »Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Addresses the Issue of Homosexual Marriage
On September 7, 2013 His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew visited the Holy Cathedral of St. Symeon in Tallinn, Estonia. Early that afternoon, His All-Holiness presided over Vespers Service in the same church, at which time he delivered the Homily. Below is an excerpt of this Homily, in which he addressed the topic of the relationship between Church and Family, and …
Read More »Stalwart of Greek Orthodox Church in Sydney celebrates 50 years in Australia
Oliver Murray – North Shore Times – August 14, 2013 WHEN Father John Daskalakis came to Australia in 1963, the Greek Orthodox Church was just starting to establish itself in Sydney. During the next 50 years, Father Daskalakis has seen the Archangel Michael Church in Crows Nest being built and the Greek community on the north shore grow. In latter years, …
Read More »Worshippers at Templestowe’s St Haralambos Greek Orthodox Church cop parking fines at midnight Paschal Service
PARKING officers have headed out on the town late on a Saturday night – not to party, but to fine parishioners of a Templestowe church. More than 2500 people flocked to the Greek Orthodox Church of St Haralambos for a midnight mass to celebrate Greek Orthodox Easter on Saturday, May 4. Many worshippers, including Templestowe resident Angelina Alexandrou, returned to …
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