Guests included Emeritus Queen Sofia and Princess Cristina of Spain, as well as Princess Benedikte of Denmark and two of her ...

Immigration helped fuel the growth of America’s Orthodox churches more than a century ago. Now, it’s conversions from other ...

Greek monks were trying to build monasteries in places that were hidden or difficult to access in order to protect them from ...

Thousands of survivors held torchlit vigils across southern Turkey at 4:17 am Thursday, expressing pain and anger as they ...

The Rosary Sisters nun who shared life with Gazans under Hamas rule as well as the suffering of war spoke to AsiaNews about ...

In the Holy Land, we should resist the temptation to confuse hope with a political solution to the conflict, which is nowhere in sight, except perhaps for the next generation. Indeed, these are two ...

Youstina Khoury, a Christian nun kidnapped by an earlier iteration of the group now running Syria, has forgiven the former ...

Worshippers in Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre surround ... A bejeweled icon, or encolpion, worn by Theophilos III, Greek Orthodox patriarch of Jerusalem and all Palestine, venerates ...

Amid this clash of calm and chaos, Zoccola was on the “cusp of something” she could not yet grasp. She would capture this ...

"The first phrase I learned in Albanian was Christ is risen" - The conversation was recorded in the autumn of 2017 and the ...

In Greece, Orthodox Easter is celebrated with an entire week of festivities ... The resurrection is proclaimed at exactly midnight, and is celebrated with drums, fireworks, and church bells. Fireworks ...