As the Easter season approaches, the cost for a carton of eggs is high and supply is low. Here are five fun alternatives to ...

Church bells around the world will toll in unison Sunday to mark the third anniversary of the Ukraine-Russia war. Among those church bells chiming: the bells of St. Peter and St. Paul Ukrainian ...

In the Orthodox calendar there are special memorial days - Parents' Saturdays. One of them precedes Shrovetide and Great Lent ...

Previous Vatican updates indicated that the 88-year-old pontiff has been able to receive the Eucharist, rest, read, and work.

The Greek island of Crete has its own saint connected to love, namely Saint Yakinthos, comparable to St. Valentine.

A year on from the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in an Arctic prison, his supporters in Australia have ...

If you are lucky enough to visit Greece in spring, you’ll find many of the country’s beloved destinations transformed into ...

In the middle of a grand, high-ceilinged church in Orebro, Sweden, Jacob Kasselia, a Syrian orthodox priest ... people were ...

Mourners lit candles for the dead and injured overnight ... throughout the Balkan region The leadership of the Orthodox Church in North Macedonia on September 12 expressed support for the ...

In 2025, the Orthodox Church has designated two significant Psychosavata as days of remembrance and prayer for the departed.

In Greece, Orthodox Easter is celebrated with an entire ... squares of the cities and villages before 11 p.m., carrying large white candles. Before midnight, the lights of the churches are put out in ...