TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s Orthodox Church on Sunday elected Joan Pelushi as its new leader following the death in January of Archbishop Anastasios, who had revived the church after the ...

Icon of Saint Patrick, patron saint of Ireland. Public Domain St. Patrick’s Day may be widely associated with Roman Catholic traditions, but a Greek Orthodox church in Grevena, northern Greece, has ...

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 ...

On Friday, the Greek Orthodox Church called for an emergency meeting to discuss a major reform to be launched. The move comes after the Church was rocked by overwhelming scandals on sex and finance ...

Funeral services are being held Thursday across North Macedonia for dozens of victims of last weekend’s devastating nightclub fire, as grieving communities gather ...

The Orthodox church in Kocani was too small to host all those who wanted to attend an afternoon sermon dedicated to the victims of Sunday's nightclub fire tragedy, which killed 59 people, mostly young ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. Cyprus has a population of about 1.1 million, nearly 82 percent of whom follow the Greek Orthodox Church and celebrate Easter accordingly, ...

Authorities in North Macedonia said Wednesday they have shuttered dozens of nightclubs and entertainment venues following a ...

In 2018, the Russian Orthodox Church severed ties to the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople after Patriarch Bartholomew confirmed his intention to recognize the independence of the Orthodox ...

Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jews were once exempt from military service — but now they are being drafted. One of those new draftees, Yechiel Wais, was excited, hoping the military would help him ...

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