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CONGRESS, NEWS, THE OAKS

The 19th European Congress of Ethnic Religions (ECER) in Athens

The Supreme Council of Ethnic Hellenes (YSEE), as the representative body of the Hellenic Ethnic Religion, is honored and pleased to announce the hosting of the 19th European Congress of Ethnic Religions (ECER) in Athens, Greece, from October 3rd to 5th 2025, under the theme: The contribution of Ethnic Religions to the formation of European identity.
The international organization ECER has already held 18 successful conferences, the 7th of which took place in 2004 in Athens under the auspices of the YSEE. ECER has also a rich activity aimed at assisting and promoting European religious organizations of ethnic traditions and religions as well as combating discrimination against them.
The aim and focus of the conference are to highlight aspects of European traditions and ethnic religions that contribute to, reinforce and strengthen the sense of European citizens of belonging to a shared cultural tradition and the way in which this is brought to light and consolidated in the contemporary European consciousness.
The thematic axes of the conference are:

Ø Commonalities and differences among ethnic European traditions and religions
Ø Relations and interaction with the official Church and the State
Ø Relations with the European Union
Ø Effective ways of highlighting the contribution of ethnic religions to social, humanism (humanitarian) and political issues concerning European citizens
The conference will include:
Ø Lectures with visual presentation of information and translation
Ø Presentations by spiritual leaders and priests of the organizing bodies
Ø Performance of religious Rituals
Ø Visits to archaeological sites and museums
Ø A one-day guided excursion to an archaeological site

Further information and a detailed program regarding structure, lectures and terms of participation will be announced in due course. For more details, please visit our website: ecer2025.ysee.gr or contact us at: ecer2025@ysee.gr

CONGRESS, NEWS, Riga 18th, THE OAKS

The European Congress of Ethnic Religions 2023 in Latvia

2023/06/29–2023/07/02

The purpose of the European Congress of Ethnic Religions (ECER) is to serve as an international body that will assist Ethnic Religious groups in various countries and will oppose discrimination against such groups. By Ethnic Religion, we mean religion, spirituality, and cosmology that is firmly grounded in a particular people’s traditions. In our view, this does not include modern occult or ariosophic theories/ideologies, nor syncretic neo-religions.

The first European Congress of Ethnic Religions took place in Vilnius (Lithuania) in 1998, the 10th Congress was held in Rīga-Jūrmala-Sigulda (Latvia) in 2007. We are privileged to announce that the 18th Congress returns to Latvia. We are looking forward to see you in Rīga and Lokstene during the 4 days of the Congress (June 29 – July 2, 2023) in Latvia.

Please, feel free to follow our news and updates on social media sites — @Dievturi —, and use the hashtag #ECER2023 when publishing or looking for the information about the Congress.

More information: https://sites.google.com/view/ecer2023/

Here is the application form link: https://forms.gle/RZtEpAaFtJkj8Aqw5

REPORTS, THE OAKS

The Hellenic Ethnic Religion in the Parliament of the World’s Religions 2018

The Hellenic Ethnic Religion, at the invitation of the world-renowned religious institution “Parliament of the World’s Religions”, represented Greece and its long spiritual tradition at this year’s Toronto Canadian event (November 1-7, 2018, at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre).

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CONGRESS, REPORTS, Rome 16th

The Roman-Italic rituals and their sources

The Report of Societas Hesperiana pro Culto Deorum, for 16th ECER Congress, Rome 2018

The Triple Exile:

As we all know, after the doomed and execrable Second Edict of Theodosius, in the year 392 c.e., private (communitarian and domestic) rituals were banned in the entire territory of the Western Roman Empire. Terrible persecutions punished all who continued to honor the Gods and the Ancestors in all the territories of nowadays Italy. Anyway, we know from historical sources and because of the persistence of many ritual acts in rural Italy that many fellow gentiles continued to perform rituals during the long centuries of oppression. Continue reading The Roman-Italic rituals and their sources →

CONGRESS, REPORTS, Rome 16th

The Review of Saturnia Tellus for the ECER Congress in Rome 2018

A great four-day event, with the participation of delegations from fifteen European countries and a representation from the US, culminated in an intense and luminous common ritual on the sacred hill of the Palatine on the 2771st anniversary of Rome foundation, the “Dies Natali”. So it was the sixteenth Congress of the ECER – European Congress of Ethnic Religions, organized by the Movimento Tradizionale Romano on the theme “The pagan rituals and their sources” (19 – 22 April 2018), concluded in Rome with great success, thanks to the synergy of prestigious doctrinal and scientific contributions and an impeccable organization. Continue reading The Review of Saturnia Tellus for the ECER Congress in Rome 2018 →

CONGRESS, Rome 16th

THE PRESENTATION OF YSEE AT THE EUROPEAN CONGRESS OF ETHNIC RELIGIONS (ECER) «2018»

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The presentation of the Supreme Council of Ethnikoi Hellenes (YSEE) on the first day of the 17th European Congress of Ethnic Religions (ECER) at Rome (April the 19th «2018»).

Η παρουσίαση του Υπάτου Συμβουλίου των Ελλήνων Εθνικών (ΥΣΕΕ) κατά την πρώτη ημέρα του 17ου Ευρωπαϊκού Συνεδρίου Εθνικών Θρησκειών (ECER) στην Ρώμη (19 Απριλίου «2018»).

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