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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

This is related to another problem, the plunging Christian population in the Christian holy places of the Middle East ... Similarly, the Shias of Iran and neighboring areas are considered less ...

Some of these residences, like the Meteora Monasteries in Greece and Popa Taung ... s most gravity-defying spiritual sites. Six of the 24 Orthodox Christian monasteries strewn across Meteora ...

The monks stated that the persecution of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church continues with unrelenting intensity. The abbots and abbesses of 39 monasteries in Greece and ... against places of worship, such ...

“However, Easter can be observed between April 4 and May 8 in the Eastern Orthodox Church…According to long-term averages, the most unusual Easter date is March 22. The second place goes to ...