This past Orthodox Christmas, on 6th January, in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, the patriarch blessed icons and crosses engraved with the president’s initials to be sent to the most ...

An anti-Israel protest erupted into violence and mayhem as a swarm of demonstrators flooded a primarily Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn on Tuesday night. One person was arrested after ...

A leading Lithuanian ultra-Orthodox rabbi has called on Haredi political parties to refrain from participating in Zionist institutions like the Jewish Agency and Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish ...

Are your jellybeans getting stale? [lcamtuf] thinks so, and his guide to choosing op-amps makes a good case for rethinking what parts you should keep in stock. For readers of a certain vintage ...

The song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas" is an English Christmas carol. From 1558 until 1829, Roman Catholics in England were not permitted to practice their faith openly.

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 ...

(RNS) — The Christian and Jewish faiths demand we welcome the stranger. DHS is not allowing us to do that, so we sued. Shalom Goldman From Jewish summer camp to gospel to Chabad, Bob Dylan’s ...

Recently, however, he noted a subtle shift: “During the Orthodox Christmas interviews in early January, several priests sent to the Ukrainian front reported to Patriarch Kirill that the Russian ...

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 ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew leads the official door-opening ceremony of lower Manhattan’s St ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. For the most part, it is Christians in the Serbian Orthodox Church who celebrate Christmas in Kosovo, but there are also some Roman ...

Celebrations continue through until 6 January which marks the date for orthodox Christmas or the Feast of the Epiphany for non-Orthodox Christians. During these celebrations there are two very special ...