This Friday is Jumaa’ al Hazeeneh (Arabic for Good Friday), and to Palestinian Christians this phrase is pregnant with ...

Vladimir Grygorenko is decorating the dome of a North Texas Christian Orthodox Church with an iconic representation of the ...

The fact that we are celebrating together, it's of course, a joy because it is something which is reminding us that we are ...

(Reuters) -Two U.S. Congress members landed in Damascus on Friday to meet Syrian officials, the first visit by American ...

A pair of Republican Congress members have arrived in the Syrian capital on an unofficial visit organized by a ...

But the wardens had other objections. “What you see now is what you saw in 1380 – there’s no way I could stick an air-source heat pump just outside the church,” said Mr Burrell. “And ...

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 ...

In Greece, Orthodox Easter is celebrated with an entire week of festivities ... Devout followers are said to light an oil candle inside the home beside their icon-candle and keep this light burning ...