Reaching towards the sky, they rise vertically from the valley floor for a hundred metres and more: Masses of basalt columns, ...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s Orthodox Church on Saturday held an enthronement ceremony for its new Archbishop Joan, who ...

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In Orthodox Christian iconography, a peculiar icon of Saint Christopher can be seen, depicting him with a dog's head.

Greek Parliament Member Nikolaos Papadopoulos targeted and damaged artist Christophoros Katsadiotis’s works, decrying them as “blasphemous.” ...

The Greek Orthodox Church's Holy Synod has denounced the content of an exhibition at the National Gallery – the Alexandros Soutsos Museum, in Athens, following a vandalism attack by an ...

He earlier led Mass at the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in downtown Tirana. The Orthodox Church of Albania was declared autocephalous in September in 1922, after it had been subordinated to ...

He earlier led Mass at the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in downtown Tirana. The Orthodox Church of Albania was declared autocephalous in September in 1922, after it had been ...

Papadopoulos previously said in parliament that one of the Greek paintings was offensive to Orthodox Christianity ... it insulted the Virgin Mary and Christ. “I took down four icons, four ...

Nikolaos Papadopoulos, of the small right-wing, ultra-religious Niki party, attacked the paintings in The National Gallery - Alexandros Soutsos Museum. The exhibition includes works that caricature ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Greek police officers walk outside the National Gallery, as Nikolaos Papadopoulos, member of parliament of ...