Greek Reporter2d
Catholic and Orthodox Church: The Unknown First Division Before the Great Schism
The Orthodox and Catholic Churches have a long history that led to a series of divisions, also known as schisms.
Greek Reporter1d
Akathist Hymn: Echoes of Unparalleled Beauty in Orthodox Churches
The Akathist Hymn, which is chanted on the first five successive Fridays of Lent in the Eastern Orthodox Church, is dedicated ...
India Today on MSN1d
How Turkey's Hagia Sophia, once a cathedral, became Waqf property
The Hagia Sophia is at the centre of Turkey's Byzantine, Ottoman and secular history. How did the sixth-century cathedral ...
Greek City Times2d
The Akathist Hymn chanted every Friday of Great Lent
It is chanted in all Orthodox Churches throughout the world during the five Fridays in Great Lent and constitutes a very ...
TheCollector on MSN25d
The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire’s Macedonian Renaissance
The Byzantine Empire in the 7th century was wrecked by military strife. The empire was halved, with its richest territories in Egypt, North Africa, and the Levant lost to the expanding Islamic ...
La Brújula Verde4d
Olga, the Vengeful Widow Who Became the First Woman to Rule Kievan Rus and Convert to Christianity
It was the mid-10th century AD when Kievan Rus was ruled for the first time by a woman, appointed as regent on behalf of her three-year-old son. She was the one who defeated the Drevlians, a Slavic ...
The Blogs | The Times of Israel2dOpinion
The Transformative and Destructive Power of Christianity
When Christianity became state-sponsored under leaders such as Constantine and Theodosius, governments systematically ...
London Review of Books2d
Can we speak Greek?
Crusius plundered contemporary travel accounts for information alongside chronicles and histories. He recognised ...
Opinion
The secular case for a religious revival
Without organized traditional religion, Americans are inclined to fill the void with something far worse than “love thy neighbor.” ...