Inside the dazzling white Valamo monastery, the country’s only Eastern Orthodox abbey, the day begins at 6am with prayers, ...

This goes back to the split between the Eastern church and the church in the West, a split between Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism. If you go back even before that to the early church, you ...

On Ukraine’s eastern front, Kurakhove is surrounded on three sides, with Russian forces just under 2 miles from the ...

A Greek Orthodox monk on Mount Athos, the center of Orthodox monasticism, died at the age of 82 without ever seeing a woman.

After he and his fellow monks sang morning prayers in their church nestled in a forest, Brother Luke walked back to his ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

THE relationship between the Church and the government in Estonia remains strained, as the Estonian Orthodox Church of the ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. In Greece, Orthodox Easter is celebrated with an entire week of festivities – aptly titled The Holy Week – with Good Friday, Easter Sunday, ...

Alexander the Great is one of the legendary conquerors of ancient history who sparked the imagination of generations of ...

Albania's Prime Minister wants to give a state and nationhood -- similar to the Vatican in Italy -- to a Muslim minority within the country.

Now that conservatives are openly supporting gay marriage and same-sex surrogacy, the question becomes What s next ...