Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Lothar Wolleh CC BY 3.0 Imagine walking into a church, where spectacular icons stare down from the walls, priests with long beards swing incense censers, and the chanting ...

He has been working from a studio at the Holy Archangels Greek Orthodox Monastery near San Antonio. "My iconography is the work of the church; it's ecclesiastical work," Kavallaris, 60 ...

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Two families of mixed Catholic and Orthodox Christian members are looking forward to celebrating Easter together on the same date in 2025 as they also hope to one day see greater unity among all ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A kesis or priest, waves a censer burning incense ...

The countdown to the Orthodox Easter, or Pascha, the most important religious feast of the year, started on March 3, 2025, when Greece celebrated “Kathara Deftera,” Greek for “Clean Monday.” The date ...

April 20 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin joined other worshippers for an Easter service led by the head of Russia's Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill ...

It’s real Norman Rockwell country. But in recent years, the tide of summertime visitors has brought with it a new constituency not much seen before in these storied hills: haredi Orthodox Jews. The ...

President Vladimir Putin and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin joined other worshippers for an Easter service led by the head of Russia's Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, a faithful backer of the Russian ...