At first glance, it's a happy image -- hundreds of smiling faces torn from newspapers and pasted into a frame. But these are ...

The countdown to the Orthodox Easter is set to begin on March 3, when Greece celebrates “Kathara Deftera,” Greek for “Clean ...

KOCHI: It is the smell of burning candles and incense floating with the gentle breeze that greets you as you slowly climb the stone steps of the hillock leading ...

Thousands of Albanians gathered in the capital on Thursday to pay their last respects to Archbishop Anastasios, who revived the country’s Orthodox Christian Church after the fall of the country’s ...

Unlike many festivals and celebrations which have a set date (Christmas and Halloween, for example), the date of Easter can ...

Citizens from every corner of Albania come to say goodbye to the late Archbishop - At 12 (Greek time) the funeral ...

The latest round of iconography is being installed at St. Matthew Orthodox Church in Green Bay. Officials say the tradition ...

Kollyva, the boiled wheat-based sweet offered at Greek Orthodox memorial services for the souls of the dead, has roots in ...

Anastasios played a key role in reviving the church in Albania, an independent branch of the Eastern Orthodox Church, after being elected to lead it in 1992 following the fall of the communist ...

Archbishop Anastasios Υannoulatos was an enlightened prelate and a distinguished academic. In 2000 he was candidate for the ...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania's Archbishop Anastasios, who revived the country's Orthodox Church after the fall of the communist regime in 1990, has died, the church said on Saturday.

Cyprus has a population of about 1.1 million, nearly 82 percent of whom follow the Greek Orthodox Church and celebrate Easter ... On Holy Saturday, a midnight vigil is held to herald the Resurrection ...