On the Saturday before Holy Week, the Orthodox Church commemorates a major feast of the year, the miracle of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ when he raised Lazarus from the dead after he had lain in ...

For more than a millennium, Orthodox Christian monks have woken up in the predawn darkness to start their day with prayer at ...

For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas — or Father Spyridon, as he’s affectionately called — has prayed, worked and ...

Orthodox celebrate the liberation of Jewish people from slavery in ancient Egypt more than 3,000 years ago with symbolic ...

A Texas Green Orthodox church is embarking on the final phase of a multimillion-dollar, yearslong expansion project amid ...

Christians around the world will celebrate on the same day this year, a relative rarity. Pope Francis would like to make it permanent.

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. Cyprus has a population of about 1.1 million, nearly 82 percent of whom follow the Greek Orthodox Church and celebrate Easter accordingly, ...

With the Muslim fasting season coinciding with Christian Lent this year, the usual contingent of Christian leaders was especially august on March 11, with Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III ...

St. Patrick’s Day is widely associated with Irish culture and Roman Catholic traditions, but the day also holds significant meaning in the Orthodox Christian Church in Greece. Every year, on March 17, ...

In Israel, everyone must serve at least two years in the IDF once they turn 18. For decades, ultra-Orthodox men like Mendel could avoid being drafted — as long as they continued their studies of ...

Icon of Saint Patrick, patron saint of Ireland. Public Domain St. Patrick’s Day may be widely associated with Roman Catholic traditions, but a Greek Orthodox church in Grevena, northern Greece, has ...

Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jews were once exempt from military service — but now they are being drafted. One of those new draftees, Yechiel Wais, was excited, hoping the military would help him ...