Palm Sunday marks the last Sunday before Easter, and signals the beginning of Holy Week, an important period of prayer and ...

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

Saturday Festal vigil: presented by St. Nicholas Orthodox Church at 6 p.m. in person at 102 Ross Ave. in San Anselmo. Go to stnicholasmarin.org. Sunday Palm Sunday service: presented by All Saints ...

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

Father Spyridon has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in a monastery carved into a cliffside high above the Aegean Sea ...

A study shows that abstaining from animal products during religious Greek Orthodox Easter fasting provides health benefits.

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

The monk who lives in the cliffs of a Greek tourist island - For more than 50 years, Father Spyridon has welcomed the ...

It is chanted in all Orthodox Churches throughout the world during the five Fridays in Great Lent and constitutes a very ...

Ameen." The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said: "Whoever stands (in prayer) during Laylatul Qadr with faith and seeking reward, his past sins will be forgiven." (Bukhari, Muslim) This Hadith highlights ...