In Greece, Orthodox Easter is celebrated with an entire week of festivities – aptly titled ... Devout followers are said to light an oil candle inside the home beside their icon-candle and keep this ...

Cyprus has a population of about 1.1 million, nearly 82 percent of whom follow the Greek Orthodox Church and celebrate Easter accordingly ... who then carry them around the church while following an ...

Only since the First World War have there been any clean-shaven Orthodox monks or priests, with closely-shorn hair, but this fashion has been continued among some of the clergy down to our own day. An ...

Thousands converted and were baptised, and the Christian faith continued to grow and expand from that point on. In Greek Orthodox doctrine, Pentecost was the fulfilment of Jesus’ mission on Earth and ...

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CC BY 2.0/flickr Whether religious or not, the Greek Orthodox holy week moves the hearts of Greeks ... cliff above the main town where the whitewashed stone-built Monastery of Panagia lies. On Holy ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew leads the official door-opening ceremony of lower Manhattan’s St ...

Vladimir Putin accused Jews of attacking the Russian Orthodox Church and suggested that they lacked family and “roots,” the latest antisemitic statement from the Russian leader since his 2022 ...

A leading Lithuanian ultra-Orthodox rabbi has called on Haredi political parties to refrain from participating in Zionist institutions like the Jewish Agency and Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish ...

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