This liturgy was used by the church in Antioch in present day Syria. Many bishops in this area also broke away after the Council of Chalcedon. They stopped using Greek and used the Syriac language ...

Father Bendo and his wife, Georgia, moved their family from Albania to Lewiston, where they've received a warm and supportive ...

Kathara Deftera,” Greek for Clean Monday, commences the 40-day period of Great Lent, known as "Sarakosti" for the Greek Orthodox Church.

Clean Monday—the beginning of Lent among Orthodox Christians—is the day Greeks fly kites, symbolic of the Resurrection.

An ancient town in Syria is one of the world’s few places where residents still speak Aramaic, the language that Jesus is believed to have used.

Vladimir Putin accused Jews of attacking the Russian Orthodox Church and suggested that they lacked family and “roots,” the latest antisemitic statement from the Russian leader since his 2022 ...

The Louvre Museum in Paris announced the acquisition of a private collection of 272 Eastern Christian icons, which will be ...

An ancient church in the Pirot settlement of Staničenje, nestled at the foot of Mount Belava by the Nišava River, was built ...

On Friday, the Greek Orthodox Church called for an emergency meeting to discuss a major reform to be launched. The move comes after the Church was rocked by overwhelming scandals on sex and finance ...

Philomath resident Brent Kaseman shares information on the Orthodox Church, which has a presence in the local vicinity.

Fanouropita is a sweet cake recipe from Greek cuisine and is traditionally a Lenten cake, also called “lost and found cake.” ...