The festival kickstarts the year for the church but also serves as a way to reach more people in the community. It’s an event ...

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth century, and with a history surrounded in myth, legend and controversy, it ...

India has had a thriving community of Eastern Orthodox Christians, brought by Saint Thomas the Apostle to India.

With the holy commemorations of Good Friday and Easter for Roman Catholics, Orthodox Greeks and other Christian denominations ...

A tiny church built in the trunk of a huge tree dedicated to Saint Paisios draws thousands of visitors each year from Greece ...

ROME, Metropolitan City of Rome Capital — In the last 18 months of his life, Pope Francis had a frequent evening ritual: He ...

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, ...

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On the Saturday before Easter, thousands of Christians gather in the cavernous Church of ... Eastern Orthodox Christians believe the light miraculously appears inside the Holy Edicule, built ...

For more than 400 years, Catholic and Orthodox churches have used different ways to determine ... (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) Greek Catholic believers and foreigners who live in Greece attend the ...