A record-breaking ten-ton vasilopita cake was created at Peristeri, an Athens suburb, and was distributed to the city's ...

The story of the Greek Orthodox custom of the Vasilopita, or the New Year's cake with a lucky coin inside, began in Asia Minor.

While Islamic tradition sees Christians and Jews as the “People of the Book,” they still retain only second-class status as “protected” dhimmi, an inferior status for not having accepted Islam ...

From eight members to more than 50 in the span of three short years, the church has come a long way from its origin inside a ...

Although later pushed to the side, women in early Christian communities often ... suggesting that the representatives of the church that called itself orthodox and based itself in Rome did not ...

The Orthodox Syrian Church advocates self-governance under the Malankara Metropolitan, rejecting the supreme authority of the Patriarch of Antioch. Conversely, the Jacobite Syrian Christian Church ...

Over time, the Christian church and faith grew more organized. In 313 AD, the Emperor Constantine issued the Edict of Milan, which accepted Christianity: 10 years later, it had become the official ...