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Imagine stepping into a church that looks fully Orthodox—icons, incense, chanting, bearded priests—but it's actually Catholic ...
Panagia Vefa is a Greek Orthodox church in Istanbul, Turkey, where people of all faiths come to make a wish on the first day ...
Minutes before midnight, the gold-leafed interior of St. Michael Ukrainian Orthodox Church in downtown San Francisco began to glow with candlelight as parishioners filed inside for Easter prayers that ...
Easter will be celebrated the same day for Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox members alike. Father Kostandin Tuda of Holy ...
Orthodox Christians gathered at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem to mark the centuries-old 'Holy Fire' ceremony ...
The alignment of Easter in Western and Eastern branches of Christianity, along with a 1,700-year anniversary, have renewed ...
It now has more than 1,500 registered members, and church leaders say more than 4,000 people attend services each week. DSK ...
The agony of waking up early in the morning is dreaded even by the best of us. The comforts of a bed fare better than having to rouse from a deep slumber. So you can forgive the little five-year ...
We saw women at the market, students at the university library, children at kindergarten, passersby savoring the first joys ...
This is considered the most important and joyous festival – the "Feast of Feasts" – in the Eastern Orthodox Church. While sharing the core belief in the resurrection of Jesus Christ ...
The Orthodox countries largely rejected the Gregorian reform, objecting that the reform was not a decision of the entire Church, but only its Western tradition. Even when Orthodox countries ...
Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Jessica Harvey used to worship in a church with stained glass and a soaring ceiling. The Catholic parish gave Harvey and her family a sense of community as ...