But most Eastern Orthodox celebrate Christ's birth ... painting these icons in 2003, and finished a few years later. "The lead artist Uglishe Melitios, said it's really good we got the iconography ...

A bejeweled icon, or encolpion, worn by Theophilos III, Greek Orthodox patriarch of Jerusalem and all Palestine, venerates the Virgin Mary and the Christ ... cast a “good Samaritan” as an ...

Cyprus has a population of about 1.1 million, nearly 82 percent of whom follow the Greek Orthodox Church and celebrate Easter ... who then carry them around the church while following an icon of ...

In Greece, Orthodox Easter ... and countries in the west. Good Friday is considered to be a sacred day in Greece. Traditionally, the day starts out with local girls and women decorating a replica (or ...

The latest round of iconography is being installed at St. Matthew Orthodox Church in Green Bay. Officials say the tradition ...

but also as that of a good father and pastor who rebuilt the Orthodox Church of Albania with his wisdom, perseverance, and vision,” Meta wrote. Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, Patriarch ...

Pope Francis sent his condolences to the Orthodox Church in Albania on Monday ... who dedicated himself so much to Christ that he could say, ‘I have become all things to all people, that I ...

ATHENS (Reuters) -Archbishop Anastasios, head of the Orthodox Church of Albania, died at a hospital in Athens at the age of 95 on Saturday, the church announced. Anastasios played a key role in ...

Thousands of Albanians Pay Last Respects to Orthodox Christian Archbishop Anastasios ... around the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in downtown Tirana.

The main traditions of the holiday. On January 7, the bright holiday of the Nativity of Christ according to the Julian calendar is celebrated by believers of the Orthodox rite in a number of churches, ...

The Israeli military has enlisted the first batch of about 50 recruits into its new ultra-Orthodox brigade after a controversial decision to end their decades-long exemption from service.