Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. In Greece, Orthodox Easter is celebrated with an entire week of festivities – aptly titled The Holy Week – with Good Friday, Easter Sunday, ...

Note: Throughout this article, we occasionally use the term "Greek Easter" as a synonym for "Orthodox Easter" to vary our language and avoid repetitive phrasing. We acknowledge that the celebration of ...

On Friday, the Greek Orthodox Church called for an emergency meeting to discuss a major reform to be launched. The move comes after the Church was rocked by overwhelming scandals on sex and finance ...

Credit: Greek Reporter Hagia Sophia in Istanbul (Constantinople) remains the symbolic center of the Greek Orthodox faith even almost six centuries after its fall to the Ottomans and its conversion to ...

A Christmas tree in a Greek Orthodox town in Hama countryside was set ablaze by foreign fighters affiliated with the Turkish-backed Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) jihadist organisation. Only one day ...

Greek Orthodox bishop at the Great Blessing of Waters on Theophany, throwing the cross off the Glenelg Jetty, South Australia, for one of the swimmers below to retrieve. Credit: Maggas/Wikimedia ...

Mahlab is a spice made from ground cherry stones and, along with piney gum mastic, gives this Greek Easter bread its distinctive flavour. Hardboiled eggs dyed red and pressed into the bread give ...

Stefanos Tsitsipas expressed his love for Paula Badosa by writing her a love song titled "Mi Chica Paula." The Greek tennis player, always supportive of the Spaniard, used AI to bring the song to life ...

Vladimir Putin accused Jews of attacking the Russian Orthodox Church and suggested that they lacked family and “roots,” the latest antisemitic statement from the Russian leader since his 2022 ...

The authorities said at least 160 children and teenagers might have been the victims of human trafficking and other crimes on a farm run by Lev Tahor, an ultra-Orthodox sect. By Emiliano Rodrígue ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Share GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan authorities searched the compound of an extremist ultra-orthodox ...

Public support for doing away with sweeping army exemptions for military-age ultra-Orthodox men has risen sharply over the past year, according to a survey published Tuesday by the Israel ...