The countdown to the Orthodox Easter is set to begin on March 3, when Greece celebrates “Kathara Deftera,” Greek for “Clean ...

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All Saints Orthodox Church in Olyphant celebrated the second day of Christmas in honor of the Theotokos on Dec. 26.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Archbishop Anastasios Yanoulatos, head of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania, leads the Easter ...

25 in Greece due to a recent illness. He led the Albanian Orthodox Church for nearly 33 years. Under his leadership, after the fall of communism, more than 400 parishes were reopened and ...

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 ...

OLEG VAROV / RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH PRESS SERVICE / AFP The Kremlin ... in the Ukrainian war will be decorated with military crosses blessed by Kirill himself – and engraved on the chains ...

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 ...

Young, single men are flocking to the Orthodox church after discovering the “masculine” Christian religion through online influencers. Some converts said they felt disillusioned with the ...

Cyprus has a population of about 1.1 million, nearly 82 percent of whom follow the Greek Orthodox ... at the church. On Holy Saturday, a midnight vigil is held to herald the Resurrection of Christ.

Seraphim Holland, a priest at the St Nicholas Orthodox Church in McKinney, Texas, has witnessed a surge of converts in recent years - James Breeden/Breeden Media LLC ...

An associated tradition has been the tossing of a cross into the water to be retrieved by divers. Holy water from the church is given to the faithful to consume and to use to bless their homes. On ...