Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. Cyprus has a population of about 1.1 million, nearly 82 percent of whom follow the Greek Orthodox Church and celebrate Easter accordingly, ...

With the Muslim fasting season coinciding with Christian Lent this year, the usual contingent of Christian leaders was especially august on March 11, with Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III ...

What is baptism? Is it necessary ... A supermajority of Christians today still hold to this view, whether Lutheran or Orthodox, Anglican or Catholic, Methodist, Presbyterian, or Church of Christ.

Although St. Patrick is commonly associated with Roman Catholicism, he is also recognised as an Orthodox saint. As Greek Reporter explains, the Orthodox Church in Greece, particularly in Grevena, ...

Sadio Mane and his teenage wife have baptised their newborn daughter in Senegal. Mane married Tamba during an Islamic arranged ceremony in January 2024. Tamba was still a student when she met the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The Greek Orthodox community has launched court action against the state government to have a payout more than doubled to $27.91 ...

Bill Papasteriadis, a close friend and president of the Greek Orthodox Community of Melbourne, shared a heartfelt tribute on Facebook: “It is with much sadness that I note Nick Andrianakos passed away ...

He studied in the United States at the Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology. In 1994 he returned to Albania and became a priest and lectured at the church’s Theology University. Following more ...

Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jews were once exempt from military service — but now they are being drafted. One of those new draftees, Yechiel Wais, was excited, hoping the military would help him ...

(Ismini Vlassopoulou/InTime News via AP, File). Senior conservative party official Makis Voridis, center, speaks to reporters outside Greek Prime Minister office in Athens early Friday, June 21, 2013.

Perhaps less well known is the city’s deep, historic ties to the Greek Orthodox Church, which established its first North American congregation—Holy Trinity Cathedral—in New Orleans more ...

Antiochian Greek Orthodox Christians spoke to Kathimerini and say that they are trapped in Syria with no way to defend themselves. A few days ago, 48-year-old Johnny S., a Greek Orthodox Christian ...