This Sunday holds a special significance across the Christian world, including Greece, as believers celebrate Palm Sunday ...

A Greek Orthodox monastery in Italy, founded more than one thousand years ago is thriving just south of Rome in the epicenter ...

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

For more than a millennium, Orthodox Christian monks have woken up in the predawn darkness to start their day with prayer at ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The Greek Orthodox community has launched court action against the state government to have a payout more than doubled to $27.91 ...

Fall from these structures, as monks often did during their perilous, devotion-proving construction, and you’d have many ...

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

Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jews were once exempt from military service — but now they are being drafted. One of those new draftees, Yechiel Wais, was excited, hoping the military would help him ...

A powerful storm in the Aegean Sea has triggered flash flooding on the Greek holiday island of Paros. Torrential rain in the tourist towns of Parikia and Naousa caused floodwaters that surged ...

With the Muslim fasting season coinciding with Christian Lent this year, the usual contingent of Christian leaders was especially august on March 11, with Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III ...

In Israel, everyone must serve at least two years in the IDF once they turn 18. For decades, ultra-Orthodox men like Mendel could avoid being drafted — as long as they continued their studies of ...