For some, Christmas has not even passed yet. On the 7th January, Orthodox Christians are celebrating Christmas as they still retain the Julian calendar. The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, ...

Lent is underway in the Christian world, although it mainly impacts monks and restaurant owners, who quickly devise Lenten ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. In Greece, Orthodox Easter is celebrated with an entire week of festivities – aptly titled The Holy Week – with Good Friday, Easter Sunday, ...

Pope Francis and the Orthodox Patriarch of Romania Daniel in 2019. Credit: MIHAIL, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Have you ever noticed how Catholics and Orthodox Christians cross themselves ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew speaks ...

CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: The Orthodox faith will continue to grow in the Central African Republic (CAR), Father Sergiy Voemava has said. He shared plans for new churches and other facilities for ...

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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians has said that religious faith should serve as humanity’s safeguard amid rapidly advancing technology and what he described ...

But the former governor’s recent outreach to skeptics could win him some late-breaking endorsements in the race’s final weeks In recent weeks, as Andrew Cuomo has stepped up his outreach to Orthodox ...