The country is currently indulging in Tsiknopempti, one of the most important dates on the calendar in Greece.

"Christianity did not start in Rome, Wittenburg, or Canterbury.... It started in Palestine."A new film 'Via Dolorosa', shown ...

Hello there. I don’t know if Mitsotakis got off easy back in 2018 with the rolling suitcases of the Novartis scandal—"the scandal of the century," as Mimi ...

For three weeks in January, 25 seminarians and two leaders from The St. Paul Seminary in St. Paul traveled and prayed in the ...

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

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 ...

Orthodox Easter occurs anywhere from mid-April to early May. Easter is celebrated in Cyprus as the holiest day of the Christian ... Holy Saturday, a midnight vigil is held to herald the Resurrection ...

Thousands of Albanians Pay Last Respects to Orthodox Christian Archbishop Anastasios TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Thousands of Albanians gathered in the capital on Thursday to pay their last respects ...

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 ...

Therese Cory, University of Notre Dame (THE CONVERSATION) Once, on a road trip in Greece, I stopped with my husband and dad at a centuries-old Orthodox ... and yet, so holy. What exactly is ...

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