The latest round of iconography is being installed at St. Matthew Orthodox Church in Green Bay. Officials say the tradition combines history, art and religion.

A bejeweled icon, or encolpion, worn by Theophilos III, Greek Orthodox patriarch of Jerusalem ... marking the site of Christ's burial and Resurrection. Photograph by Alessio Romenzi Father Solana ...

In Greece, Orthodox Easter is celebrated with an entire week of festivities ... Easter Saturday is known as the The Resurrection or “Anastasis”. Preparations for the jovial dinner begin early in the ...

A local pilgrimage that kicked off in January in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis offers an opportunity to celebrate the newly canonized Martyrs of Damascus and to, in prayer, walk ...

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 ...

and resurrection (or ascent)’. The focal point of the church's interior is its stunning cascade of wooden beams falling from its ceiling and a large cross that presides over the podium. A minimalist ...

Kollyva, the boiled wheat-based sweet offered at Greek Orthodox memorial services for the repose of ... (mnemosynon), the kollyva is placed in front of the memorial table or an icon of Christ.

Thousands of Albanians gathered in the capital to pay their last respects to Archbishop Anastasios, who revived the country’s ...

Thousands of Albanians Pay Last Respects to Orthodox Christian Archbishop Anastasios ... massed in the streets around the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ in downtown Tirana.