Love is simple, says Reverend Paul Anthony Daniels, because “in its most visceral form,” it boils down to three things: spit, ...

Members of St. Andrew Orthodox Church of Lyndora braved cold winds and icy roads Sunday, Feb. 9, to witness the annual ...

Dozens of Orthodox faithful attended today the celebration of a ceremony of consecration and raising of the cross in the bell tower under construction of the Orthodox temple of the Holy Righteous ...

What are the best cross-platform games to play? It depends entirely on what you mean by “cross-platform games.” The term refers to two distinct, but related, concepts, and both involve playing ...

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 ...

Braving the icy waters, participants across Serbia embraced tradition in the annual Swim for the Holy Cross, marking a major event in the Orthodox ... Epiphany and the baptism of Jesus Christ ...

For the first time in Wollongong, a boy and a girl have together claimed the honour of saving the holy cross of Jesus Christ as the Illawarra Macedonian Orthodox community celebrates one of its ...

Across Russia, the devout celebrate Epiphany on January 19 by immersing themselves in frigid water through holes cut through the ice of lakes and rivers, imitating the baptism ... as a cross is ...

In Serbia's Orthodox Christian community, the feast of the Epiphany is marked by the traditional "swim for the Holy Cross ... The swim symbolizes the baptism of Christ in the River Jordan.

Men exit a pond after plunging themselves in icy waters to celebrate the Orthodox Epiphany at the Izmailovsky Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov) ...

Differences within the faith became evident nearly 1,000 years ago when the “Great Schism” split the church into Catholic and Orthodox. Then ... separation ranges from important traditions, like ...

Dragi Dimitrijevski had dreamed of retrieving his church's crucifix from the water the night before he plunged into the Newcastle Ocean Baths on Sunday, carrying on a decades-long local tradition.