For more than a millennium, Orthodox Christian monks have woken up in the predawn darkness to start their day with prayer at ...

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

Fall from these structures, as monks often did during their perilous, devotion-proving construction, and you’d have many ...

AMORGOS, Greece (AP) — For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in an island ...

Orthodox Christian monk Father Spyridon of Amorgos, looks out from the chapel of the Monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa, in Amorgos island, Greece ... in traditional Greek culture a bigger feast ...

Stalactites’ oven-baked lamb and potatoes lemonato In Greece, Orthodox families often spit-roast an entire lamb with lemony potatoes sewn into its belly to celebrate Easter. If a spit roast is a step ...

A Greek Orthodox monastery in Italy founded more than one thousand years ago, is thriving just south of Rome in the epicenter of Catholicism. The Orthodox monastery is a remnant of ten monks belonging ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. In Greece, Orthodox Easter is celebrated with an entire week of festivities – aptly titled The Holy Week – with Good Friday, Easter Sunday, ...

The Bronze Age is a period in history that lasted for around 3,000 years and saw significant advances in social, economic, and technological phenomena that made Greece the center of activity in the ...

What Figures Are Included In The Greek National Debt? The table below explains what is included in the national debt figure and what isn’t: The national government is responsible for all public debt ...

All scandals have seriously damaged the reputation of the Church as well as the head of the Greek Orthodox Church, Archbishop Christodoulos. Whilst there is a close bondage between the Orthodox and ...

Twentyfive archbishops have been appointed in Ethiopia’s Oromia Regional State without the knowledge of the Holy Synod of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. Abune Matias, Patriarch of the Church ...