A 4.8 magnitude earthquake shook Mount Athos in northeastern Greece late on Saturday afternoon, generating concerns.

Prologue For about a millennium the Mongol Turks have been targeting the Greeks. The Mongol Turks first appeared in the ...

Pope Francis reiterated his desire for “full unity” with other Christian confessions ... the meeting that took place in the ...

MANILA, Philippines — Pope Francis has renewed his proposal for the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church to have a common date to celebrate Holy Week and Easter. The proposal, made public ...

Across Russian-occupied Ukraine, Kremlin troops have shuttered places ... as a “holy war,” orchestrated to protect Christians from immoral Western influence. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church ...

Nikos Kazantzakis is for many the best Greek writer of the 20th century and his books have been translated more than his ...

For three weeks in January, 25 seminarians and two leaders from The St. Paul Seminary in St. Paul traveled and prayed in the footsteps of the seminary’s patron saint in Greece and Turkey, experiencing ...

For centuries, monks have sought solitude and isolation on their path to spiritual enlightenment, choosing some of the most remote places on the globe to construct their monasteries. Some of these ...

In a short but poignant text from his best-known work, ‘Summa Theologiae,’ Aquinas explained his views on venerating relics.

By placing hundreds of clergy in the Middle East, Turkey and Africa and by strengthening diplomatic efforts to protect Greek Orthodox Christians in Syria ... the Patriarchates and the Holy Monastery ...

The legalization of civil marriage in Greece in 1982 faced fierce opposition from the Church and conservatives, much like ...