This Sunday holds a special significance across the Christian world, including Greece, as believers celebrate Palm Sunday ...

Holy Week has begun, marking the final days of Jesus Christ’s earthly life before his resurrection. The period is deeply significant for Christians, who reflect on the suffering and sacrifice of ...

St. Nicholas Orthodox Church, located off East Ave. in Erie, is preparing for Holy Week with its long-standing custom of ...

Above the spa town of Kamena Vourla, the Holy Monastery of the Transfiguration of the Saviour has stood for a thousand years ...

Guarded by the peaks of the Carpathians, by the rapid mountain waters and by dense forests, with villages that still preserve ...

A record number of Christians took part in the Ecumenical Procession, Prayers and Blessing of the Palms at Finsbury Park in north London on Palm Sunday.Parishioners from St Thomas More RC church, ...

In Greece, Orthodox Easter is celebrated with an entire week of festivities ... Easter Saturday is known as the The Resurrection or “Anastasis”. Preparations for the jovial dinner begin early in the ...

Cyprus has a population of about 1.1 million, nearly 82 percent of whom follow the Greek Orthodox Church and celebrate Easter ... who then carry them around the church while following an icon of ...

As we enter Holy Week, we focus on the Last Supper on Holy Thursday and Jesus’ crucifixion on Good Friday. Yet there is an element of these sacred days that ...

We know there are some minor differences in the gospel accounts of the empty tomb. Was there one angel or two? One woman, or ...

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

An increasing number of women are finding inspiration and solace in iconography, Abigail Frymann Rouch discovers ...