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

But as young people raised in the Maronite and other Eastern rite Catholic and Orthodox churches leave the war-torn country ...

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, ...

The first female Orthodox saint in North America was an Indigenous woman who spent her entire life with her Yup'ik family and ...

Holy Week will culminate for most Eastern Orthodox churches, including Greek, Macedonian and Russian, with the celebration of late night services starting late Saturday and ending April 12.

This year, Australian communities who follow Christian Orthodox faiths will mark Easter on 20 April, aligning with Western Easter traditions — and their public holidays — for the first time ...

In Eastern Orthodox churches, Easter is also known as Pascha. That's the Greek word for "Passover," the Jewish holiday Jesus celebrated the night before his Crucifixion (The Last Supper was also a ...

How to become an iconographer St. John Chrysostom Antiochian Orthodox Church in Springettsbury Township has been adding icons to their walls for years. The iconographer, Elias Katsaros who lives ...

This icon is a remarkable survival from the so-called “dark ages” of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire. It is the oldest known depiction of Jesus Christ wearing a crown of thorns, with the names of ...

An icon of Jesus Christ Pantocrator from Macedonia, from the 14th Century showing him with unshorn hair and beard. Public domain. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported The beards — and ...

BUTTE, Mont. — Most Christians observe Christmas on December 25th. But most Eastern Orthodox celebrate Christ's birth on January 7th. For parishioners at the Serbian Orthodox Church in Butte it ...

BILL SHERMAN/Tulsa World The Rev. George Eber, pastor of St. Antony Orthodox Church in Tulsa, poses with some of the icons that distinguish Eastern Orthodox churches. BILL SHERMAN/Tulsa World ...