Kollyva, the boiled wheat-based sweet offered at Greek Orthodox memorial services for the souls of the dead, has roots in ...
Greece’s mobilization to strengthen the churches of the Diaspora by appointing a few hundred priests comes at a time when the ...
Irene of Athens was the first Greek-Roman empress to wield power as a sole ruler of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire.
TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania's Archbishop Anastasios, who revived the country's Orthodox Church after the fall of the ...
Archbishop Anastasios, the head of the Albanian Orthodox Church for three decades, has died aged 95 in an Athens hospital after being airlifted to the Greek capital following a virus infection.
It was a cold weekend morning on a nearly frozen river, but the warm spirit of unity filled the air, and hot cocoa warmed ...
(AP Photo/Petros Karadjias) Christians attend Christmas Mass in the Greek Orthodox convent Saint Takla, in Maaloula, Syria, ...
Across Russian-occupied Ukraine, Kremlin troops have shuttered places of worship since the first invasion began in 2014.
Christians in Syria continue to seek more concrete guarantees, although opinions differ on what form these guarantees should ...