This message from Patriarch Bartholomew was read March 17, 2024 in Orthodox parishes under the ... forty days before Christmas Apostles’ Fast, before the feast of Saints Peter and Paul Dormition ...

March 25th is a significant date for Hellenism, as it marks both the anniversary of the Greek War of Independence and the ...

A photographic survey revealed dozens of Bulgarian inscriptions in Greek Orthodox monasteries across Jerusalem’s Old City.

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has fired or forced out a string of top officials since the deadly Hamas attack on Israel in 2023 that triggered the war in Gaza. The ...

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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s National Gallery said a Greek lawmaker on Monday attacked four paintings in an exhibition at the museum in Athens, including one he had previously criticized as ...

This was stated to the Bulgarian National Radio by Kostadin Angelov from GERB ... "After he gave himself the Christmas tree, all his calculations are wrong", he believes and listed: "These 7 billion ...

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish family takes part in the tashlich ritual, to symbolically cast away sins, ahead of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, in Ashdod, Israel, October 3, 2022.

the leaders of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, gave a lesson in humanity to the world, which we must remember and which we must pass on to every generation. “Just as we remember those 50 000 rescued ...

Millions of Orthodox Christians in the Holy Land, Russia and other Eastern Orthodox churches around the world celebrated Epiphany on Friday, nearly two weeks after Christmas celebrations by Roman ...

Two Bulgarian spies known as "The Brunette Twins" - who toured Europe setting honey traps while plotting to kidnap opponents of Vladimir Putin - are facing jail. Lab-assistant Katrin Ivanova ...