Public support for doing away with sweeping army exemptions for military-age ultra-Orthodox men has risen sharply over the past year, according to a survey published Tuesday by the Israel ...

It was heard Fr Bozos’ responsibilities in his role for the Greek Orthodox Community included providing spiritual and pastoral care, being registrar for weddings, baptisms and funerals ...

The story of the Greek Orthodox custom of the Vasilopita, or the New Year’s cake with a lucky coin inside, began in Asia Minor, and more specifically in the city of Caesarea in Cappadocia, more than ...

Innocent Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Anchorage performed their annual Nativity play on Sunday. Children of all ages from the church were invited to participate and perform in the play, while members ...

The Greek Orthodox Metropolitan Amphilochios and priest Atanas Sultanov presided over the singing of hymns describing the life of Jesus and the reading of prayers, while the congregation lit candles ...

On the other hand, Greek remained more linguistically unified. Its easy switch from Classical Greek to Byzantine Greek and, finally, to Modern Greek ensured its continued existence as a spoken ...

Credit: Greek Reporter Hagia Sophia in Istanbul (Constantinople) remains the symbolic center of the Greek Orthodox faith even almost six centuries after its fall ... However, the significance of Hagia ...

The nativity in the flesh of our Lord, God and Savior Jesus Christ, known as Christmas in the West, is one of the 12 major feast days of the liturgical year in the Eastern Orthodox Christian ...

Philosophical concepts “are changed or distorted over time because people tend to assimilate particular traits of the characters at the forefront of certain philosophical currents, affixing the ...

A Christmas tree in a Greek Orthodox town in Hama countryside was set ablaze by foreign fighters affiliated with the Turkish-backed Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) jihadist organisation. Only one day ...

The pews of Lady of Damascus Church in Syria's capital filled with a mixed congregation of young and old, holding candles as hymns filled the air and echoed through the church ... On December 18 ...

The authorities said at least 160 children and teenagers might have been the victims of human trafficking and other crimes on a farm run by Lev Tahor, an ultra-Orthodox sect. By Emiliano Rodrígue ...