Ash Wednesday is officially here! The Christian season of Lent — the 6-week period that leads up to Easter — starts. What we ...

This year's honored country is South Africa. May 9-10; The Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, 583 N. Highland. Greek dancing? Yes. Musicians playing bouzoukis (long-necked lutes), baglamas (bowl ...

Residents across Orange County are getting ready to celebrate Ramadan, Eid, Holi, Nowruz, Passover, Lent, Easter and Vesak this Spring.

Every year, millions of Christians gather to participate in a deeply symbolic act that marks the start of Lent-Ash Wednesday.

"This partnership with the Woods College at Boston College strengthens Hellenic College as the educational and spiritual formation center of our Church and advances ... as Hellenic College Holy Cross, ...

In Greece, Orthodox Easter is celebrated with an entire week of festivities ... The resurrection is proclaimed at exactly midnight, and is celebrated with drums, fireworks, and church bells. Fireworks ...

Orthodox Christians entered the period of Great Lent, a time of preparation for the feast of Easter, which, according to the ...

Vladimir Putin accused Jews of attacking the Russian Orthodox Church and suggested that they lacked family and “roots,” the latest antisemitic statement from the Russian leader since his 2022 ...

This year's honored country is South Africa. May 9-10; The Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, 583 N. Highland. Greek dancing? Yes. Musicians playing bouzoukis (long-necked lutes), baglamas (bowl ...

This liturgy is similar if not identical to the liturgy used by the Orthodox ... This church became known as the Coptic church because Copt is the Arabic and Greek word for Egyptian.

OT 434-435; JBC, p. 517] Now the Catholic Church is not alone in accepting the Books which Protestants label as "Apocrypha." The Coptic, Greek and Russian Orthodox churches also recognize these ...