In Greece, Orthodox Easter is celebrated with an entire week of festivities ... Easter Saturday is known as the The Resurrection or “Anastasis”. Preparations for the jovial dinner begin early in the ...

Orthodox Christians in Russia celebrate Christmas on Jan. 7, according to the Julian calendar Patriarch Kirill, an enthusiastic backer of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, blessed icons and crosses ...

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and women have been largely exempt from army service since the establishment of Israel in 1948, while secular and traditional Jewish men and women must serve for a ...

Vladimir Putin accused Jews of attacking the Russian Orthodox Church and suggested that they lacked family and “roots,” the latest antisemitic statement from the Russian leader since his 2022 ...

Originally conceived in the mid-1800s to honor Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich (who died in Nice), the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral wasn't completed until the early 20th century.

It was told that during the pandemic, the orthodox priest of 18 years had not fulfilled his duties after he refused to conduct services for feasts on days other than Sundays when Covid lockdown ...

Public support for doing away with sweeping army exemptions for military-age ultra-Orthodox men has risen sharply over the past year, according to a survey published Tuesday by the Israel ...

GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemalan authorities searched the compound of an extremist ultra-orthodox Jewish sect Friday, taking at least 160 minors and 40 women into protective custody after reports of ...

Authorities also discovered at least one skeleton of a minor. Lev Tahor is an ultra-orthodox organization, that moved to the village of El Amatillo in the southern department of Santa Rosa in 2016, ...

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Gibson said the film will be titled The Resurrection Of The Christ. “My brother and I and Randall all sort of congregated on this. So there’s some good heads put together, but there’s some ...

Dracula, to put it gently, has been done. Not just Bram Stoker’s bloodsucker, but vampires of all varieties seem to be on a carousel of pop cultural relevance. Just as soon as they dance out of ...