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

An AP photographer captured a visual story about Father Spyridon, the monk depicted in the image, using the clouds to give ...

Josip Jelinic knelt down in the pouring rain, leaned on a wooden crucifix and uttered words that are still rare in Bosnia, 30 years after the end of a brutal civil war. "I forgive everyone, and I ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. Cyprus has a population of about 1.1 million, nearly 82 percent of whom follow the Greek Orthodox Church and celebrate Easter accordingly, ...

BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — Kitty Dukakis, the wife of former Massachusetts governor and Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis, who spoke openly about her struggles with depression and ...

Maj. Raz Peretz, 24, commander of a combat support company in the Golani Brigade, from Afula, was killed on October 7 battling the Hamas attack on the Kissufim IDF outpost. The morning of the ...

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced on Thursday that his administration would avoid escalating tensions with Eritrea regarding access to the Red Sea, despite warnings from regional ...

my jet lag couldn’t dull the energy of Ethiopia’s capital. We wove through crowds of office workers headed to high-rises and families leading goats home for Orthodox Christmas feasts while our ...

KOCANI, North Macedonia (AP) — Thousands of mourners flocked to funerals Thursday in North Macedonia for the dozens of victims of last weekend’s devastating nightclub fire, bringing flowers ...

Ethiopia Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed says he wants to have negotiations over access to the sea Landlocked Ethiopia has no intention of starting a war with neighbouring Eritrea in order to gain ...

(The Center Square) – Religious private and charter schools in the U.S. have been fighting a series of legal battles in recent years to answer the question: Can religious schools accept taxpayer ...