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 ...
The discord between the two factions within the Malankara Church appears to be widening with the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church coming out against a call by the Jacobite faction for coexistence ...
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 ...
the head of the Greek Orthodox Church worldwide, Archbishop Christodoulos, made an apology to the whole nation regarding all the embarrassing misbehaviours of priests and senior clerics that have ...
Orthodox Jew and the other an observant Muslim, explore how both of these traditions navigated their engagement with American culture and civilization. And the more they explain their own community, ...
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, ...
The petition was filed by Gilbert Cheeran, a member of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, citing Supreme Court orders in this regard. He contended that it was wrong to spend public funds on the ...
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 ...
In Greece, Orthodox Easter is celebrated with an entire week of festivities – aptly titled ... The resurrection is proclaimed at exactly midnight, and is celebrated with drums, fireworks, and church ...