Greek monks were trying to build monasteries in places that were hidden or difficult to access in order to protect them from ...

Holy Myrrhbearers Orthodox Christian Church in Mount Crawford is in the process of having its walls painted. But these are ...

Old Greek Inscription From an Ancient Fortress, Hints at Byzantine Christianity A team of Hebrew University archaeologists ...

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A bejeweled icon, or encolpion, worn by Theophilos III, Greek Orthodox patriarch ... evidence that converge on this ancient church. Just yards from the tomb of Christ are other rock-hewn tombs ...

A local pilgrimage that kicked off in January in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis offers an opportunity to celebrate the newly canonized Martyrs of Damascus and to, in prayer, walk ...

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

What’s less well-known is that it was discovered, in 1910, at the sub-Saharan site of an ancient city on the east bank of the Nile, about 150 miles north of Khartoum in modern-day Sudan ...

The Oldest Evidence for Lead Pollution Comes From Ancient Greece WASHINGTON (AP) — Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out ...

Bulgarian parliament recognized Bulgarian Orthodox Church as the sole representative of Eastern Orthodox Christianity in the country, after a new bill adopted by the parliament. The bill was ...

On January 30th, the Orthodox Church celebrates the Three Holy Hierarchs: Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian and John ...