The beards of Orthodox priests are some of their most striking attributes, marking them as different from other Western ...

A new film, "The 21," recounts the beheadings 10 years ago of 21 Coptic Christians by ISIS radicals. But the film also ...

And when that ghost is none other than Jesus Christ ... A bejeweled icon, or encolpion, worn by Theophilos III, Greek Orthodox patriarch of Jerusalem and all Palestine, venerates the Virgin ...

and Jesus' descent into Hades, said Father Gabriel Weller, the priest at the church, which is affiliated with the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia. In Orthodoxy, it is necessary to use ...

Orthodox Easter occurs anywhere from mid-April to ... who then carry them around the church while following an icon of Christ. This is done to recall Jesus’ Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem. The olive ...

Fouad Jakiche Fouad Jakiche was born on April 23, 1932, in Damascus, Syria, and transitioned to Heaven peacefully in , New ...

That brings us to 2025, which will see a remarkable coincidence: Both the Eastern and Western will hold Easter on the same ...

President Donald Trump controversially declared himself a 'King' yesterday and has regularly compared himself to icons from ...

Rabbi Ari Berman delivering the benediction at Trump's 2025 Inauguration President Donald Trump once again turned to the Orthodox community to give a benediction on behalf of American Jewry at his ...

(Chitose Suzuki / Staff Photographer) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, widely known as the Mormon church, plans to sue the town of Fairview for denying a permit request for the ...