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

Father Spyridon has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in a monastery carved into a cliffside high above the Aegean Sea ...

The monk who lives in the cliffs of a Greek tourist island - For more than 50 years, Father Spyridon has welcomed the ...

The University of Cambridge hadn’t even been founded. The hospital was run like a tiny monastery, with clerics and lay staff living alongside the “inmates”—as residents were called.

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, ...

A quartet of small, rocky exoplanets likely circle Barnard's Star, around 6 light-years from Earth, putting them in contention as targets of missions for future human generations.

Terrified scientists in a remote Antarctic base are pleading to be rescued after a member of the team allegedly attacked and threatened to kill another. The author claimed that a man had attacked ...

Icon of Saint Patrick, patron saint of Ireland. Public Domain St. Patrick’s Day may be widely associated with Roman Catholic traditions, but a Greek Orthodox church in Grevena, northern Greece, has ...

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Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jews were once exempt from military service — but now they are being drafted. One of those new draftees, Yechiel Wais, was excited, hoping the military would help him ...

A delegation of 47 parliamentarians from 10 countries visited St. Catherine’s Monastery ... As part of the Orthodox Parliamentary Assembly's official programme in Egypt, running from 10 March ...