With interest and sympathy the Catholic Church – and I personally – follow the development of Orthodox communities in Western Europe, which in recent decades have grown remarkably. In Germany ...

The 20th anniversary celebrations of Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Havana, Cuba, were an eye-opening experience that revealed the resilience of faith and the mysterious ways in which God ...

On Friday, the Greek Orthodox Church called for an emergency meeting to discuss a major reform to be launched. The move comes after the Church was rocked by overwhelming scandals on sex and finance ...

The Greek Orthodox Church is under pressure from a sweeping change of Church leadership amid investigations of overwhelming scandals on sex and finance among senior clergymen. The controversy began in ...

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, ...

What was the Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration? Why was it created? How were migrants from Greece selected?

Vladimir Putin accused Jews of attacking the Russian Orthodox Church and suggested that they lacked family and “roots,” the latest antisemitic statement from the Russian leader since his 2022 ...

In Greece, Orthodox Easter is celebrated with an entire week of festivities – aptly titled ... Preparations for the jovial dinner begin early in the morning with the cooking of the maghiritsa – a type ...

Mary’s Church in the town of Gardelegen, located in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. The findings emerged during excavation work linked to a construction project inside the centuries-old church. The excavation ...

James for the Antiochaian church, but modified by St. Basil (329-379) and St. John Chrysostom (344-407). This liturgy is similar if not identical to the liturgy used by the Orthodox churches.

The ancient Greek religious festival of Anthesteria was revived in the center of the old city in Athens on Sunday. A spectacular Greek necropolis complex in Sanita, near Naples, opened to the public ...

This alliance is also condemned by Germany’s Christian churches, which fear that "German democracy will suffer massive damage" if the "cordon sanitaire" that has existed until now is "abandoned." ...