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 ...

Thousands of mourners flocked to funerals Thursday in North Macedonia for the dozens of victims of last weekend’s devastating ...

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 ...

The Lower Makefield Township Planning Commission’s meeting this month lasted into the wee hours of the next morning as residents from Bridal Estates protested DeLuca Homes’ plans to build 47 ...

Known in Israel as “the Harvard of yeshivas,” Ponevezh sits perched on a hill above the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak. We stood at the back of its vast central study hall. Hundreds of white ...

Researchers have a new explanation for why we experience the "happiness paradox" -- a phenomenon wherein trying to make ourselves happier actually makes us less happy. Studies have documented the ...