Hagia Sophia remains the symbolic center of Greek Orthodoxy even centuries after its fall to the Ottomans and conversion to a ...

As we close the door on 2024 and take our first steps into 2025, it's a good time to remember those close to you who you lost ...

Smashing a pomegranate on New Year’s Day is an Ancient Greek custom that is considered a symbol of good fortune.

With 5,000 public and private institutions that contain millions of historical objects, Ukraine’s museums preserve the story ...

In the face of violence, deprivation, suffering and political turmoil, Palestinian Catholic priests offer Palestinian ...

Around the year 1730, church leaders hired a congregation member named John Gibbs to paint 16 angels on the interior upper arches. Gibbs also painted angels on the organ case and an altar panel ...

More than 200 million Christians are associated with Orthodox Churches and most celebrate Christmas on 7 January.

A large crowd watched on as dozens of swimmers rushed to retrieve a wooden cross thrown by a priest into the water, in a ...

Father Stavros Bozos told bosses he should not have to go to work because the church computer was at ... responsibilities in his role for the Greek Orthodox Community included providing spiritual ...

Meanwhile, the Belarusian Orthodox Church is a special case, because we are cursed during the sermons in their churches,” Fr Roy said. Before it was designated an “extremist source”, his ...