The Holy Light arrived in Greece on Holy Saturday and will be making its way across the country as Greeks prepare to mark ...

Orthodox Christians filled a Jerusalem Church to celebrate the Holy Light ceremony, before it is transported to Greece to ...

The official ceremony began at 14:15, after the sealing of the Holy Sepulchre was broken. The Patriarch of Jerusalem, ...

The ceremony began at 10:15 a.m. Jerusalem time, which matches Kyiv time. The procession, led by the Armenian Orthodox ...

The current ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I, has balanced the growing power of Moscow, but the question ...

This narrative, promoted through the Russian Orthodox Church and reinforced by the myth of “Moscow as the Third Rome,” casts Russia as the spiritual center of Eastern Orthodoxy ... the Moscow ...

A Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Wagner and NASA astronaut Donald Pettit has ...

On the Saturday before Easter, thousands of Christians gather in the cavernous Church of the Holy Sepulcher for a centuries-old ceremony known as the Holy Fire. Holding unlit candles, they pack into ...

Eastern and Western churches will celebrate Easter on the same day this year, while marking 1,700 years since the Council of ...

Palestinian Orthodox Christians gathered on Sunday to attend the Easter service at the Greek Orthodox church, St.

He hasn't ruled out amending the church's statutes and said that could be discussed. However, he is in no hurry to cut ties with the Moscow Patriarchate or Patriarch Kirill. He said: "They demand ...