The date is the start of the period called Sarakosti, signifying 40 days of Great Lent, leading up to the Greek Orthodox Easter on April, 20. This year the Orthodox Easter is celebrated on the same ...

On Friday, the Greek Orthodox Church called for an emergency meeting to discuss a major reform to be launched. The move comes after the Church was rocked by overwhelming scandals on sex and finance ...

Greek monks were trying to build monasteries in places that were hidden or difficult to access in order to protect them from ...

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, Greek Orthodox Church leaders, and the World Council of Churches also expressed their condolences. Respected for his ...

The Greek Orthodox Church is under pressure from a sweeping change of Church leadership amid investigations of overwhelming scandals on sex and finance among senior clergymen. The controversy began in ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Greek Orthodox priests stand next to the casket of the late Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana, Durres and All ...

these points raised by the SC bench have indeed come as a relief for the church. "The Orthodox faction had challenged the validity of the Cemetery Bill in the HC. But the latest SC order ...

Vladimir Putin accused Jews of attacking the Russian Orthodox Church and suggested that they lacked family and “roots,” the latest antisemitic statement from the Russian leader since his 2022 ...

Pope Francis sent his condolences to the Orthodox Church in Albania on Monday following the recent death of Archbishop Anastasios Yannoulatos, who led that church for nearly 33 years.

The Supreme Court on Thursday (January 30, 2025) referred the dispute between Malankara Orthodox and Jacobite factions over the administration of six churches in Ernakulam and Palakkad districts ...

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It's not even 6:30 a.m. and already the sun is beaming through the windows like it has something to prove. It's only ...