The abbots and abbesses of 39 monasteries in Greece and Mount Athos have issued an open letter supporting the Ukrainian ...

Christians will make up 87% of voting members in the Senate and House of Representatives, combined, in the 2025-27 ...

Orthodox Easter is usually at least a week later than Catholic ... It is named after the first Christian martyr, Stephen, who saw the risen Christ giving a “standing ovation” at the right hand of the ...

Orthodox Easter occurs anywhere from mid-April to early ... All walk home carrying their candle and saying to those they see “Christ is risen!” The traditional reply is, “He is risen indeed!” There ...

In Greece, Orthodox Easter is celebrated with an entire week of ... The crowd offers the salutation “Christós Anésti” (Christ has risen) to each other, which is responded to with the phrase “Alithós ...

From this point of view, what had been stigmatized as heresy was also vitally related to man; even as full of significance for the interpretation of man to himself as the orthodox creed which ...

Archbishop Anastasios, who revived the Orthodox Church of Albania after the fall of the communist regime in the country, has ...

The celebration on Jan. 25 marked the solemn conclusion of this year’s Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, which the Pope ...

Thousands of Russians celebrating the Orthodox Christian feast day of Epiphany, where worshippers bathe in the icy waters of ...

Vladimir Putin met the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, on Tuesday with gifts he asked the Patriarch to bless for troops fighting in Ukraine. The meeting at a Christmas ...

The head of the Albanian Orthodox Church, who was airlifted to a hospital in Athens due to complications from a virus, is in a critical condition, the Evangelismos hospital said Sunday.