The year ahead will be filled with good luck for Yanni Collicott after his eleventh attempt to successfully pluck a cross ...

Thousands of Georgians marched through the streets of Tbilisi late on Monday on Orthodox Christmas Eve, gathering in front of ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Breaking News. Followed categories will be ... came together to celebrate Orthodox Christmas at a church opposite the parliament building in the centre of ...

The dynamic of talking in shul during prayer or the reading of the Torah, when all is said and done is, with regard to many congregants, a conscious willingness to pervert the fundamental spiritual de ...

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Ethiopians follow the Julian calendar, which runs 13 days later than the Gregorian calendar, used by Catholic and Protestant ...

Assad’s regime, Syria’s new administration began revising the country’s educational curriculum, with changes affecting ...

Even as the mercury dropped below freezing, enthusiasm soared among about a dozen hardy swimmers during an annual ritual in ...

Palestinian medics say Israeli strikes have killed at least 12 people in Gaza, mostly women and children. The nearly 15-month ...

The hotel is used mostly by people visiting Meteora, a UNESCO World Heritage site featuring 24 Orthodox Christian monasteries built some 600 years ago on top of sheer rock formations reaching up to ...

When Zenebech Aly visited Rochester for the first time in the summer of 2010, she decided pretty much on the spot that here is where she wanted to raise her young family. She had expected a ...