The countdown to the Orthodox Easter, or Pascha, the most important religious feast of the year, is set to begin on March 3, ...

The countdown to the Orthodox Easter is set to begin on March 3, when Greece celebrates “Kathara Deftera,” Greek for “Clean Monday.” ...

Thousands of Albanians gathered in the capital on Thursday to pay their last respects to Archbishop Anastasios, who revived ...

First, is there actually a growing trend of young men looking to become Orthodox Christians? Second, is it correct to ...

Archbishop Anastasios Υannoulatos was an enlightened prelate and a distinguished academic. In 2000 he was candidate for the ...

He "passed away" at the age of 95 - He was very active in Orthodox youth organizations - He founded the first missionary ...

TASS-FACTBOX. On January 19, Orthodox believers in Russia celebrate Epiphany, or the Baptism of the Lord, one of the 12 major Christian holidays (along with Easter) dogmatically connected with the ...

As Syria begins recovering from 50 years of autocratic rule by the Assad family, an international envoy says Christians and ...

A church volunteer was surprised to find what was stopping him opening a cupboard was a cross stolen from the church 18 months before. In June 2023, the cross was the only item taken from the ...

priest at St. Nicholas Orthodox Church, prepared to cast a large cross made of frozen holy water into the Ohio River during Saturday’s Great Blessing of Water, as the Rev. Matthew Moore, priest at All ...

In honor of the Holy Feast of Theophany, the faithful of St. Athanasios Greek Orthodox Church led by the Rev ... short ceremony that included tossing a cross into the Fox River and then retrieving ...

During the ritual, a wooden cross was dangled into the river to ... Reverend Dr Andreas Andreopoulos, priest of the Greek Orthodox Church in Reading said: “The celebration of Epiphany in ...