Orthodox Easter is observed across diverse communities ... dyed on Holy Thursday before sunrise, then placed near an icon at home and kept all year for good health. What follows is the egg tapping ...

His goal: complete the Euless church’s sacred painting by Pascha, or Easter ... a priest at St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church. The icons are not worshipped, but rather venerated ...

Zelenskyy emphasized that Russia must fully adhere to the ceasefire conditions and reiterated Ukraine’s offer to extend the truce for 30 days, starting Sunday midnight.

People stand in line to kiss an icon during the celebration of Orthodox Easter at Cross Lower Church of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Kharkiv, Ukraine, 20.04.2025 Pope Francis hosts awkward ...

People stand in line to kiss an icon during the celebration of Orthodox Easter at Cross Lower Church of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Kharkiv, Ukraine, April 20, 2025 El Salvador's Bukele ...

Fifty heads of state and government, 170 foreign delegations and over 250,000 faithful solemnly attended the funeral ceremony ...

The Chicago-born pontiff—the new spiritual leader of 1.3 billion Catholics and the proprietor in trust of the great art and ...

Pope Francis died Monday at age 88. The Vatican said Francis suffered a stroke which led to a coma and his heart to fail, as he recovered from a five-week hospitalization for double pneumonia.

The list includes Buddhists, Hindus, Sikhs, Zoroastrians, Jains, as well as leaders of the Eastern Orthodox Church ... is ...

From Germany labeling its second-largest party "extremist" to Sweden paying immigrants $35,000 to leave to nuclear tensions ...

A genuine Slutsk sash and a 500-year-old Neman dugout canoe… What else can you see in the exhibition of ancient Belarusian culture at the ...

IF JERUSALEM is to remain, as many see it, the beating heart of Christianity, then it needs its lifeblood: its Christian ...