Palm Sunday marks the last Sunday before Easter, and signals the beginning of Holy Week, an important period of prayer and ...

Holy Week is the holiest week of the Greek Orthodox Church, symbolizing the passion, death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Christians around the world will celebrate on the same day this year, a relative rarity. Pope Francis would like to make it permanent.

Eastern Orthodox Churches are self-governing bodies of Christians adhering to a pure and ... Off Orthodox Christians place great emphasis on worship, particularly the Divine Liturgy. By maintaining a ...

(RNS) — On Thursday (May 2), the Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and all of Africa ordained in Zimbabwe the first deaconess of any patriarchate in the global Eastern Orthodox Church ...

Father Spyridon has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in a monastery carved into a cliffside high above the Aegean Sea ...