The Greeks of Cappadocia, in central-eastern Anatolia, created their own flourishing culture in ancient times that thrived in the region for millennia. However, the Great Catastrophe of Smyrna and ...

Then there's George Papastamatiou, 77, of Sudbury, a third-generation (and world-renowned) iconographer who's working on a ...

Far-right media mogul Konstantin Malofeev used to be an influential but fringe figure in Russian politics. While ...

Women played diverse and influential roles in the Byzantine Empire that extended far beyond the domestic affairs of each family.

Many people mistakenly think that the Eastern Roman Empire became the Byzantine Empire, but the truth is much more complex. In this video, we explain how the term "Byzantine" was actually coined ...

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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“In the whole history of the Orthodox Church in America, this has never been seen,” a priest said about the surge of young men drawn to the demanding practice of Christianity. “The Orthodox Church is ...

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 ...

On that cold, quiet morning of May 29, 1453, the jewel of the Eastern Roman Empire, girded by titanic Theodosian walls and the Bosphorus Strait, a bastion of Christianity in the East for more than a ...