Around the Christmas period, most families are preparing for the festivities by hanging decorations, planning dinner parties, ...

It’s easy to imagine Saint Nicholas as just as mythical as the modern-day Santa Claus -- but he actually was a real person.

Christian Cairo is deeply significant for pilgrims and travelers due to its connection to the rich history of Christianity in ...

Churches across Syria hold Christmas services as worshippers express hopes for reconciliation and lasting stability - Anadolu ...

Christmas services were held in Mykolaiv. The services were held, in particular, at the Cathedral of the Kasperovskaya Icon ...

In the Orthodox Church, the Twelve Days of Christmas form a sacred bridge between the Nativity of Christ on December 25 and ...

Originally a Christian holiday celebrating Jesus' birth, Christmas evolved into a global event. The tradition of celebrating ...

In the 18th and 19th centuries, biblical scholars interested in parallels between ancient religious belief systems argued ...

Can you chip in? As an independent nonprofit, the Internet Archive is fighting for universal access to quality information. We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, ...

When the church was built, Gallaway had commissioned a local craftsman to build the “iconostase,” another required feature of ...

Orthodox Christians face accusations of idolatry claiming that the veneration of icons amounts to worship of the images ...