On Friday, many Orthodox Christians celebrated the Feast of the Dormition of the Theotokos. The Russian Orthodox Church doesn't celebrate this feast until later ...

On this Sunday which falls between July 13/26 and July 19/August 1 the holy Orthodox Church commemorates the holy Fathers of the first six Ecumenical Councils who labored with much love and suffering ...

Labour, after all, comes before the virtues, and eternal blessedness follows them! ~St. John of Damascus, On the Dormition of the Holy Mother of God, Homily I (from On the Dormition of Mary , St ...

It took five years to hand-carve the screen that stretches across the front of St. John Damascus, and it shows. Besides its wrought wood, the screen displays a host of icons, their angular lines ...

On Dec. 4 we celebrate St. John of Damascus, also known as St. John Damascene. A priest and religious, he became a doctor of the Church. He’s also the last Church Father. Here are seven things ...

Damascus RB Jake Funk, St. John’s DL Terrell Hall named Gatorade Players of the Year. December 3, 2015 More than ...

St. John Damascus Nov 28, 2010 / 05:01 am Catholics will remember and celebrate the life of the great Arab Church Father St. John of Damascus on Dec. 4.

It is customary to regard the age of the Church Fathers as ending in the East with the life of St. John of Damascus, who died around A.D. 749.

Damascus (AsiaNews) Pope John Paul II was a new 'Baptist', "the living and daring conscience of the world", wrote Gregorius III Lahham, Greek Melkite Patriarch of Damascus, ...