Archbishop Elpidophoros of America has called the election of Archbishop Ioannis of Tirana, Durres, and All Albania a ...

St. Patrick is as a Roman Catholic figure, but a church in Grevena, in northern Greece, has always celebrated him.

Explore the inspiring story of Greece’s 1821 War of Independence, highlighting heroes like Ypsilantis and Byron ...

Albania’s Orthodox Church has elected Joan Pelushi as its new leader following the death in January of Archbishop Anastasios, who had revived the church after the fall of communism in 1990 ...

Archbishop Elpidophoros, who leads the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America visited New Orleans Friday, bringing a message ...

Leaked audio instructions by Greek rescue co-ordinators have cast further doubt on Greece's official version of events in the hours before a migrant boat sank along with up to 650 people onboard.

MOSCOW (AP) — Thousands of Russians celebrating the Orthodox Christian feast day of Epiphany, where worshippers bathe in the icy waters of frozen lakes and rivers, have been forced to cancel ...

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

FACT CHECKThe video actually shows an Orthodox Christian Epiphany ritual, unrelated to Kumbh Mela. A video of an Orthodox Christian priest take a dip in a water body to mark the day of the Epiphany is ...

The beards — and often the very long hair — of Orthodox priests and other holy men are some of their most striking attributes, marking them as different from other Western religious men. Credit: Greek ...

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 ...

Athanasiou, 38, of Cecil Township, pleaded guilty Nov. 13 to one felony theft charge after admitting to stealing $155,000 from All Saints Greek Orthodox Church in North Strabane between April 2022 ...