The festival's famous moussaka has baked layers of eggplant, potatoes and ground beef, all topped with béchamel sauce and ...

Yesterday the millions who adhere to the Orthodox Greek Church celebrated their Christmas. The rest of the Christian world noted the fact with the languid surprise Which it always elicits ...

The principal buys Christmas sweets and distributes them ... but more than 1,000 Christians are still displaced inside the Greek Orthodox Church and the Latin monastery, surviving under the ...

celebrate St. Nicholas on Orthodox Christmas. St. Nicholas was a historic 4th-century saint and Greek Orthodox Bishop of Myra, also known as ‘Nikolaos of Myra’ (in modern day Turkey).

the Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem, Athos monasteries and some Protestants and Catholics of the Eastern Rite also celebrate Christmas on January 7 or December 25 according to the Julian calendar.

Greek Orthodox Priest Issa Thaljieh says this has not been a joyful Christmas in Bethlehem. "Bethlehem today is very sad. For me, it’s important to focus on the prayers and the religious rituals ...

Because some Orthodox church jurisdictions follow the “old calendar,” or Julian Calendar, which honors Christmas in January, and some the “new calendar,” which slates it for Dec. 25 ...

Unalaska’s Church of the Holy Ascension hasn’t had a resident priest for a few months, but that didn’t stop parishioners from ...

Vladimir Putin has marked Russian Orthodox Christmas by attending church in Moscow alongside fighters in his war against Ukraine and their families - despite being responsible for hundreds of ...