A striking protest unfolded in downtown Ottawa as what appeared to be Syrian Orthodox Christians took to the streets, decrying the mass slaughter of ethnic minorities in Syria. The demonstrators, led ...

I don’t think so.” After adding that the alleged opponents of the church were also neither Orthodox Christian nor Muslim, he added, “These are people without kin or memory, with no roots.

According to the 2023 census, Orthodox Christians in Albania make up about 7% of the country’s 2.4 million population, although the church says the actual number is higher. Half the population ...

St. Patrick’s Day is widely associated with Irish culture and Roman Catholic traditions, but the day also holds significant meaning in the Orthodox Christian Church in Greece. Every year, on March 17, ...

Orthodox Easter occurs anywhere from mid-April to early May. Easter is celebrated in Cyprus as the holiest day of the Christian year and the whole of Holy Week, from Palm Sunday till Easter Sunday, is ...

Patrick’s Day may be widely associated with Roman Catholic traditions, but a Greek Orthodox church in Grevena, northern Greece ... Patrick was born circa 385 AD and died on March 17, 460/461 AD, ...

In Greece, Orthodox Easter is celebrated with an entire week of festivities – aptly titled The Holy Week – with Good Friday, Easter Sunday, and Easter Monday being celebrated as public holidays. The ...

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 ...

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople on Wednesday offered a hopeful historical assessment of the traditional 1054 date for the “Great Schism” between Rome and Constantinople ...

The church is now a museum, located in modern Demre, in Turkey’s Antalya province. It was built above the burial place of Saint Nicholas, a 4th-century bishop of Myra and an important religious figure ...