Hollywood icon Mel Gibson visited Hilandar Monastery on Mount Athos, Greece, from June 27-29, 2025, to celebrate Vidovdan and ...

Hollywood icon Mel Gibson is reportedly in Greece for a spiritual retreat before filming begins for The Resurrection of ...

Houston’s Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral, one of the largest Greek Orthodox communities in the nation, expects to cover each of its walls with colorful Byzantine iconography by the year 2027, ...

My pilgrimage to the Orthodox theocracy of Mount Athos (the Holy Mountain) began with a deep yearning for the unknown. It was a place I had never set foot on but had always longed to experience in my ...

Syrian authorities on Monday announced arrests over a suicide blast targeting a church blamed on the Islamic State group, as ...

Inside, Fr. Michael Lambakis, dressed in a black cassock, sat in a pew this week while eyeing the painted icons of blues and golds of the Virgin Mary, John the Baptist and the four evangelists ...

There are some icons that are always in an Orthodox church, always in the same places. For example, Mary is always on the left of the Iconostasis and next to her is the patron saint of the church.

Hieromonk Georgios Alevras, a renowned figure of Mount Athos and steward of Orthodox tradition, commissioned the icon’s creation to honor the Virgin Mary’s protective grace.

Resurrection day: In 2010, the monastery saw its first Orthodox worship service in 88 years when the Archbishop of Constantinople led the faithful for the Feast Day of the Assumption of the Virgin ...

Founded in the 4th century, Sümela is a gravity-defying marvel, hanging nearly 1,000 feet over a wooded valley in Turkey, that today attracts thousands of religious pilgrims.

Originally Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church, its name was changed to St. Mary’s Orthodox Church several decades ago, Zawatski said. The structure of the dome, which points toward ...