First, is there actually a growing trend of young men looking to become Orthodox Christians? Second, is it correct to ...

As far back as 1300 BC, priests would hang tiny bells to their robes, a custom preserved to this day in the Orthodox Eastern Church. With the arrival of Christianity, bells have assumed a ...

Rock was particularly impressed by the traditional Ethiopian attire worn by both the followers and clergy of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church ... and beautiful vestments. He explained that what ...

In 500 AD, when Christianity was established in the eastern part of the Roman Empire ... Pilgrims from all over Greece and and the Orthodox world flocked to Acropolis as pilgrims to the Virgin Mary.

Thousands of Albanians gathered in the capital to pay their last respects to Archbishop Anastasios, who revived the country’s ...

Immigration helped fuel the growth of America’s Orthodox churches more than a century ago. Now, it’s conversions from other ...

Afterwards we were in the dressing rooms. "We saw all these old priests’ robes and we put a load in the bag and went back to Dublin. So we were actually wearing priests’ robes. You know ...

The sacred performance signals a deepening of Catholic-Orthodox dialogue and a potential step toward a papal visit to Serbia.

which he called “The Robe of Light,” looped up on his left shoul der and fastened there with a jeweled pin, an ancient Buddhist priest trod the deck of an ocean liner in New York Harbor.