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Tangled Web
30 May 2014
It’s being reported in British newspapers that twin five-year-old girls who effectively have three mothers are at the centre of a custody battle between the two ladies who brought them into the worl... 
Turkey’s Continuing Siege: Remembering the Fall of Constantinople
Dr. Alexandros K. Kyrou
29 May 2014
Today marks the 561st anniversary of the fall and capture of the magnificent Christian city of Constantinople, the eastern capital of the Roman Empire, to the forces led by the Ottoman Turkish Sulta...
Elder Evdokimos, the Last Innocent of the Mountain – Part 2
27 May 2014
Skete of Saint Dimitrios
Elder Evdokimos was always gentle, and I mean gentle. People say that we who’re unmarried are irritable, that we lose our tempers easily, that we’re brusque and uncontrollab...
The difficulty to commit one’s self to a relationship
24 May 2014
One of the greatest ailments of the narcissistic age in which we live is the difficulty to commit oneself to longstanding relationships. This ailment stems from two roots that are in interconnected....
Speech by Elder Efraim at the feast of Saint Yerasimos Palladas
23 May 2014
The Abbot of the Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopaidi, Archimandrite Efraim, spoke in the Great Common Room of the Monastery after the festal and Patriarchal Divine Liturgy for the celebrations o...
Elder Evdokimos, the Last Innocent of the Mountain – Part 1
22 May 2014
Skete of Saint Dimitrios
I got to know this holy man – and I mean literally holy – in the first years of my acquaintance with the Holy Mountain. He may have been the first real Athonite I came acros...
Address by Elder Efraim to the Patriarch of Alexandria
20 May 2014
Address by the Abbot of the Holy Great Monastery of Vatopaidi, Archimandrite Efraim, at the reception of His Beatitude Pope and Patriarch Theodoros II of Alexandria and All Africa
Friday 3/16th of ...
The Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria at the Monastery of Vatopaidi
20 May 2014
Friday, 16th of May
The Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria, Theodoros II visited the Holy Monastery of Vatopaidi on Friday, 16th of May, on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the departure from...
The Patriarch of Alexandria on the Holy Mountain
17 May 2014
In accordance with Athonite protocol a warm welcome was accorded by the Holy Supervisory Committee and the representatives of the monasteries to Pope Theodoros II, Patriarch of Alexandria and All Afri...
