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 ...

This weekend, Christians of all denominations are celebrating Easter. Orthodox Christians in Germany are grateful for that, and long for more. Millions of Orthodox Christians currently live in ...

Two major proposals led by Jared Kushner and a new airport championed by the Albanian government focus on an area prized for ...

We meet Father Mykola, unmistakably a Christian priest. A large cross hangs around his neck, and over his Ukrainian Armed Forces uniform, he wears a cassock, the official outer robe of Orthodox ...

For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in an island monastery carved into a seaside cliff that’s little changed since its founding more ...

Pope Francis visited refugees on Lesvos, Greece in 2016 and 2021. Credit: AMNA Pope Francis’ passing marks the end of a historic chapter, one that touched Greece and the Orthodox World profoundly.

Paul in Rome. Francis’ invitation, delivered at the end of a prayer for Christian Unity with Orthodox priests present, wasn’t new. Returning from a trip to Turkey in 2014, he told reporters on ...

A man of deep humility and simplicity, Pope Francis’s words, acts and body language reflected the tenderness and compassion ...

While preaching the decentralization of church power, Pope Francis was not shy about using his office to enact top-down ...