Imagine the walls that have soaked up 1600 years of history in one of Constantinople’s most important Byzantine monasteries, ...

The Chicago-born pontiff—the new spiritual leader of 1.3 billion Catholics and the proprietor in trust of the great art and ...

The new Pope is Robert Prevost, who will be known as Pope Leo XIV - the first American pontiff to be elected leader of the ...

Shrewsbury will host a rare musical event this month when centuries old chants – silenced for almost a millennia – will be ...

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls of ALL Ages, the event that you have been waiting for, the world famous Norfolk Greek ...

In Greece, Orthodox Easter is celebrated with an entire week of festivities ... using a modified Julian calendar versus the Gregorian calendar observed by the Christians and countries in the west.

Orthodox Easter occurs anywhere from mid-April to early May. Easter is celebrated in Cyprus as the holiest day of the Christian year and the whole ... who then carry them around the church while ...

The monastery is one of 20 in the autonomous all-male monastic community of Mount Athos, known in Greek as Agion Oros, or ...

Other early ... of a major Christian council of bishops in ancient Nicaea, now the modern-day town of Iznik. Going ahead with ...

Asceticism in Christianity as ... solid evidence that women in early Christendom also engaged in self-punishment.” The evidence in question was found within a Byzantine monastery near the ...

The Catholic Church has a new leader and congratulations are pouring in as Pope Leo XIV prepares to celebrate his first Mass ...

“Only men performed self-punishment in the Byzantine period,” a recent ... and broadens our understanding of the spectrum of early Christian worship, not just in terms of what was practiced ...