A Texas Green Orthodox church is embarking on the final phase of a multimillion-dollar, yearslong expansion project amid ...

Father Spyridon has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in a monastery carved into a cliffside high above the Aegean Sea ...

A 4 c. BC Greek fresco bearing striking similarities to the traditional portrayals of the Virgin Mary has been discovered in Aigai, Greece.

For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas — or Father Spyridon, as he’s affectionately called — has prayed, worked and ...

The monk who lives in the cliffs of a Greek tourist island - For more than 50 years, Father Spyridon has welcomed the ...

My works are not icons of worship ... that Zaralikos’ act “contains content that insults the Orthodox Faith and our Virgin Mary”, adding, “I am fully aware of the indignation of many ...

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 ...

Mosaics, icons and wall frescoes ... surviving when Byzantine emperors banned the use of religious images. A depiction of Christ, the Virgin Mary, archangels and apostles was chopped into pieces ...

Latrobe City Council, in Victoria's Gippsland region, hopes the trip will encourage Queen Mary of Denmark to make a reciprocal visit. Also on the mayor's itinerary is a visit to Manchester to ...

Villagers in a small community have been enraged after a makeover of a Virgin Mary statue they have worshipped for over 200 years left it looking like a character from The Simpsons. Locals have ...

Dame Mary Berry has called a vegan substitute for egg-whites in baking “stupid”. The former Great British Bake Off judge, 89, offered her unapologetic take on using the popular egg-white ...