In Senegal's capital Dakar the following day, wrestlers compete in the country's specific form of the sport - known as laamb.

Hundreds of people have gathered in Birmingham to celebrate Timkat, the Ethiopian Epiphany. The colourful festival takes ...

More than 200 million Christians are associated with Orthodox Churches and most celebrate Christmas on 7 January.

Archbishop Anastasios, the head of the Albanian Orthodox Church for three decades, has died aged 95 in an Athens hospital ...

But Father Nenad Popović said fortunately congregants leave politics at the door. "In here we have one leader, Jesus Christ, ...

People plunge in icy water to celebrate the Orthodox Epiphany near the St. Serafimovsky Monastery on Russian Island in ...

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And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans ... Thousands of Russians celebrating the Orthodox Christian feast day of Epiphany, where worshippers bathe in the ...

Google on Wednesday won an injunction from London's High Court to prevent the enforcement of Russian judgments against the ...

Metropolitan Chrysostomos, who headed of the Vilnius-Lithuania Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church from 1990 to 2010, died on 6 January aged 90. “Metropolitan Chrysostomos was always an ...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Ethiopian Orthodox Christians celebrate Epiphany in Addis Ababa. The Ethiopian Epiphany feast is celebrated throughout the country and commemorates the baptism of Jesus Christ ...

Salome Zourabichvili's term is due to end on Sunday, but she says she is her country's last legitimate institution.