Actor and filmmaker Mel Gibson (left) with an unidentified monk at Mount Athos monastery in Greece in June 2025. | YouTube/Emilijan Asentic Hollywood icon Mel Gibson is reportedly in Greece for a ...

The Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth. Credit: Public Domain The Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation in Nazareth claimed in a Facebook post that a group that calls itself the ...

This 1930s photo provided by her family shows Olga Michael, an Alaskan Yup’ik woman who became St. Olga of Kwethluk, Matushka of All Alaska, the first female North American saint in the Orthodox ...

Nestled in a rocky depression above the turquoise waters of the Aliakmonas River in northwest Greece lies a remarkable monastery.

About 150 devotees squeezed into the sanctuary of Saint Nicholas Orthodox Church, whose golden onion domes rise above the village’s modest one-story homes.

St. Olga joins a growing cadre of saints with strong ties to Alaska — widely deemed an Orthodox holy land, even though only a fraction of the state’s population are adherents.

The Orthodox Church in America has its first female saint from North America. Hundreds of pilgrims joined several bishops in an elaborate ceremony to canonize St.

The first female Orthodox saint in North America was an Indigenous woman who spent her entire life with her Yup'ik family and neighbors in a village in southwest Alaska.

The first female Orthodox saint in North America was an Indigenous woman who spent her entire life with her Yup'ik family and neighbors in a village in southwest Alaska.

St. Olga joins a growing cadre of saints with strong ties to Alaska — widely deemed an Orthodox holy land, even though only a fraction of the state’s population are adherents.

Alaska Native woman, ‘everybody’s helper,’ is Orthodox church’s first female North American saint June 26, 2025 at 4:02 am Updated June 26, 2025 at 6:34 am ...