Millions of Orthodox Christians in the Holy Land, Russia and other Eastern Orthodox churches around the world celebrated Epiphany on Friday, nearly two weeks after Christmas celebrations by Roman ...

Orthodox Christians celebrate the religious holiday of Epiphany according to the Julian calendar on January 19. Believers traditionally plunge into cold water on Epiphany. More than 1.5 million ...

FACT CHECKThe video actually shows an Orthodox Christian Epiphany ritual, unrelated to Kumbh Mela. A video of an Orthodox Christian priest take a dip in a water body to mark the day of the Epiphany is ...

In Greece, Orthodox Easter is celebrated with an entire week of festivities – aptly titled ... Devout followers are said to light an oil candle inside the home beside their icon-candle and keep this ...

Cyprus has a population of about 1.1 million, nearly 82 percent of whom follow the Greek Orthodox Church and celebrate Easter accordingly ... who then carry them around the church while following an ...

Only since the First World War have there been any clean-shaven Orthodox monks or priests, with closely-shorn hair, but this fashion has been continued among some of the clergy down to our own day. An ...

Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral wasn't completed until the early 20th century. Tsar Nicholas II, the head of the tragic Romanov family, commissioned the ornate building not only to honor the ...

In the late 1800s, Nicola Yanney came from Lebanon to settle on a farm near Gibbon, Nebraska. He later became a St. George priest and traveled across the U.S.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew leads the official door-opening ceremony of lower Manhattan’s St ...

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Robin Dodge and his family used in last year’s Palm Sunday procession sat next to two holy icons in ... six weeks after Epiphany, and celebrating Easter at the end of March. Orthodox Christians ...