The story of the Rev. Hilarion Alfeyev captures how a once robust effort to bring Russian Orthodox Christianity and the ...

St. John died in a building behind the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral on Capitol Hill. The room where he died is a ...

When we think of Rome and the Pope, we don't necessarily think of a Greek Pope. However, many Popes in the past had been of ...

Pope Francis died Monday at age 88. The Vatican said Francis suffered a stroke which led to a coma and his heart to fail, as ...

Panagia Vefa is a Greek Orthodox church in Istanbul, Turkey, where people of all faiths come to make a wish on the first day ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Christian pilgrims carry crosses during a Holy ...

Some Church Leaders Want That to Change ATHENS, Greece (AP) — For more than 400 years, Catholic and Orthodox churches have ... Vatican’s supremacy. At a Holy Week service Monday in Athens ...

It was then another 63 years before the same icons appeared again under the name, Gates of Mystery: The Art of Holy Russia, only a year after ... the world’s finest private collection outside the ...

A week before Easter, or Holy Week, is marked with daily events. It all begins with the Saturday of Lazarus, when the youngest Greeks go around their neighborhood singing the hymn of "Lazaros" at ...

One of the most important holidays in Greece, Holy Week, called Megali Evdomada ... During the festivities, the miraculous icon of Panagia is placed at Panagia Platsani square. On the night of the ...