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Summer at Ionian Village is underway! Earlier this month the program had an amazing experience exploring our Orthodox Faith and heritage with a sold-out group of young adults with IV Next.

On the evening of Wednesday, June 25, the Maliotis Cultural Center at Hellenic College Holy Cross hosted the Annual Gathering and Great Day of Joining of the Massachusetts Council of Churches, bringing together a diverse community of clergy, lay leaders, and faithful from across the Commonwealth for a night of prayerful reflection and ecumenical fellowship.

The first 2025 session of the CrossRoad Summer Institute took place from June 7-17, with Hellenic College Holy Cross hosting thirty-five high school students in Boston, Massachusetts. 

A new study from Pew Research of 201 countries shows that while Christianity remains the largest religion in the world, Islam is world’s fastest growing religion. As this trend continues, it will have significant and multifaceted impact upon the global religious landscape.

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew has just received the Ecumenical Award of the Catholic Academy of Bavaria “in recognition of his contribution to the Ecumenical Dialogue, that is, the effort to bring Christian Churches closer together.”

In the presence of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the newly built Chapel dedicated to Saint Sophrony the Athonite, founder of the Monastery of Saint John the Baptist in Essex, was consecrated in Maldon, England on Sunday, June 22, 2025. Presiding over this solemn and joyful event was His Eminence Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira and Great Britain.

His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew was the keynote speaker on Saturday, June 21, 2025 at the Ecclesiastical Law Society’s 2025 Conference, “Nicaea Received: 1700 years of Canons, Councils and Ecumenism.”  

When The Prison Policy Initiative, a team of experts on cutting-edge research around the U.S. prison system, released its annual “big picture” report in 2024, one statistic stood out to us more than any other: 113 million adults in the United States have an immediate family member who has been to prison or jail. 

Yesterday, June 22, 2025, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America visited St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in West Babylon, New York, where he presided over the Divine Liturgy.

The ongoing tragedy of human existence and the relentless violence in the Middle East has reached into our own community.