The symbol of Western Civilization, the Acropolis' Parthenon was converted to a Christian church for almost a millennium, ...

Epiphany, or Epiphany, is one of the key holidays of the Orthodox calendar associated with the evangelical event of the ...

Byzantine Patriarch Anthony warned the Church cannot endure without an empire, emphasizing their inseparable unity during ...

Prologue The forced Christianization of Hellas / Greece in the fourth century and after wounded ancient Hellenic / Greek culture but did not completely ...

A trio of House Republicans welcomed an Orthodox Christian delegation that accused Ukraine of religious persecution to Capitol Hill this week. Reps. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) Eli Crane (R-Ariz.) and ...

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The Rev. Kathryn Adams of Canfield, right, poses with her daughter, Sarah Emerick-Craig, outside Christ the Savior Holy Spirit Orthodox Church in Norwood, where Sarah attends. After serving as an ...

Pope Leo XIV called on Christians to unite during his visit to Turkey, marking the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea in a gesture aimed at ending the Great Schism that separated the Roman ...

CORRECTION: The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Porfirije, met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Patriarch Kirill in Moscow in April. An earlier version of this story included ...

Just next door to Hagia Sophia is Hagia Irene, Church of the Holy Peace, where the legacy of Byzantine Iconclasm (a religious controversy) is still very much visible. The Dumb Truth at the Heart of ...

When Byzantine Emperor Justinian conquered Italy in the 6th century, he continued the building of a fantastic, octagonal church, the San Vitale Basilica in Ravenna. The church was a testament to the ...

Catholic bishops in Ethiopia expressed deep sorrow and solidarity after the collapse of wooden scaffolding in an Ethiopian Orthodox church in the north of the country that left at least 36 people dead ...