Each year on March 25, Greeks across the globe unite in celebration of Greek Independence Day, a national holiday in Greece that resonates deeply with the Greek diaspora. From Athens to Melbourne, New ...

The struggle of the enslaved Greeks against their ruthless rulers, the Ottoman Turks, officially started on the 25th of March 1821 in the monastery of Hagia Lavra ... with one of the holiest days for ...

On March 13, 1821 Metropolitan Germanos of Old Patras (Palaion Patron Germanos) declared war at Agia Lavra Monastery, blessing the efforts ... The Virgin Mary is the second-most sacred figure in the ...

The Society’s members were mainly educated, young Phanariot Greeks from Constantinople and the Russian Empire, but also included Greek politicians and military leaders and affluent academics as well ...

Archbishop Luis Gerardo Cabrera Herrera, a peacemaker in Ecuador Born on October 11, 1955, in Azogues, 400 kilometers south ... this member of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church joined the ...

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 ...

He has been working from a studio at the Holy Archangels Greek Orthodox Monastery near San Antonio. "My iconography is the work of the church; it's ecclesiastical work," Kavallaris, 60 ...

AMORGOS, Greece (AP) — For more than a millennium, Orthodox Christian monks have woken up in the predawn darkness to start their day with prayer at the Panagia Hozoviotissa Monastery ...