The Council of Nicaea gathered an already overwhelmingly Gentile Christianity, debating the identity of a Jewish Messiah in Greek philosophical terms, at a moment when Arian and semi-Arian currents ...

Mount Athos, known also as the Holy Mountain, is a mountain located in Greece. The site is a semi-autonomous republic of Eastern Orthodox monks and is considered to be one of the holiest places of the ...

ISTANBUL (RNS) — Archbishop Damianos of St. Catherine’s Monastery announced his intention to step down on Thursday (Sept. 4), the latest development in a saga surrounding the ancient Orthodox ...

Tension is high again at the Greek Orthodox Monastery of St Catherine on Mount Sinai. It is under siege by dissident monks who were expelled on Tuesday, after they allegedly assaulted the bishop The ...

Syrian Culture Minister Mohammed Saleh was criticized this week after a video surfaced showing him at a historic Orthodox church with Islamic chanter Al-Mu’tasim Billah Al-Assali, who performed an ...

They generally recognize each other's saints. Several Orthodox monks and martyrs with ties to Alaska are recognized as saints by the Orthodox Church in America, the now-independent offspring of the ...