In the bathroom of the photographer Simon Watson’s Dublin home, 19th-century maps of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea, photographs of Giza and a 1950s drawing of an Italian town.

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

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

In Eastern Orthodox Christianity, the date of Easter also varies. This branch follows the Julian calendar, meaning Orthodox Easter falls between April 4 and May 8, the History Channel reported.

That, in essence, was the Photian Schism, a 9th-century theological rivalry between Rome and Constantinople that continues to affect the relationship between the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. In Greece, Orthodox Easter is celebrated with an entire week of festivities – aptly titled The Holy Week – with Good Friday, Easter Sunday, ...

Orthodox priest Father Igor, center, with children and their parents, releases birds celebrating the Annunciation preceding ...

Ammar was a stone’s throw away from his family when the explosion flung him aside. Everyone in the home was killed. Palestinian Red Crescent, which lost nine of its staff in March 23 attack ...

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