Neos Kosmos

Greek Orthodox Women in Whittlesea cut Vasilopita to start the year

The Women’s Group of the Greek Orthodox Community of Whittlesea gathered for the first time this year for the traditional Vasilopita and blessing ...
Religion News Service

US Orthodox symposium on women deacons proposes a way forward

BROOKLINE, Mass. (RNS)— A consortium of Orthodox Christian scholars, clergy and lay supporters meeting this week outside Boston proposed guidelines for the church to revive the ancient practice of ...
balkaninsight

Greek Orthodox Patriarchate Supports First Woman Deacon in Africa Mission

In a first for the global Orthodox Church, the Greek Orthodox Church in Africa has backed the ordination of a female deaconess by the Archbishop of Zimbabwe to serve the Church's growing mission in ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Orthodox women activists pledge to hold ‘sex strike’ to protest religious divorce refusal

The idea of the “sex strike” originates from Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, the Greek comedy where the women of Athens refrained from sleeping with their husbands in order to pressure them to end the ...
Reuters

Greek women enter male-only Mount Athos community

ATHENS (Reuters) - About a dozen Greek women violated a 1,000-year ban on the male-only monastic community of Mount Athos on Tuesday during a protest over disputed land, one of the demonstrators said ...