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 ...

By that time, one of the Orthodox Church Fathers, Bishop Chrysostomos of Etna ... Credit: Public domain In the early Roman Empire, it was customary for men to shave and wear closely cropped hair. The ...

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 ...

But that wasn’t the strangest thing that happened that day at Saints Peter & Paul Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church, a 70-year-old congregation that for nearly three years has been mired in ...

It's the most sacred season of the Eastern Christian church's calendar, as it signifies the gift of new and eternal life after death to all who believe in Him. According to History.com ...

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, ...

Churches may be adorned with flowers and other greenery, priest wear green too, and there are special liturgies and songs ... Many in the Western Church consider Pentecost to be the “Birthday of the ...

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, ...

Meatfare Sunday in 2025 will be remembered as a major celebration for the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and the entire Bulgarian community in the United Kingdom. The "St. John of Rila" Orthodox Church, ...