The Hagia Sophia is at the centre of Turkey's Byzantine, Ottoman and secular history. How did the sixth-century cathedral ...

The Akathist Hymn, which is chanted on the first five successive Fridays of Lent in the Eastern Orthodox Church, is dedicated ...

Albania's Orthodox Church has enthroned new Archbishop Ioannis of Tirana, Durrës, and All Albania, the newly elected primate ...

The Orthodox and Catholic Churches have a long history that led to a series of divisions, also known as schisms.

Crusius plundered contemporary travel accounts for information alongside chronicles and histories. He recognised ...

COMMENTARY: This Easter, let us recall the 30 Ethiopian Orthodox martyrs and the tenuous, painful and yet real progress made ...

Christian-Muslim relations have played a significant role in shaping antisemitism in the Middle East. While Christian Arabs ...

Greek Americans are no longer an immigrant group, but an American ethnic group. Greeks are now Americans of a certain ethnic ...

who belonged to the middle rank of the administrative and military hierarchy of the Byzantine Empire. The 20th century had left a black patina of soot and exhaust on the walls of the church ...

Sipa USA Inside St. Volodymyr Eastern Orthodox Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine - 6 Feb 2025 - 59826218 Posted: February 28, 2025 | Last updated: February 28, 2025 Scenes inside the 1896 Ukrainian St ...

The textbooks say the Byzantine Empire was a theocratic ... often disappointing the Church to please the people. This is fresh air for Orthodox Christians, who have had to bear the accusation ...