With the intention of preserving Byzantine spiritual wisdom, Greek monk Nicodemus devoted his life to writing the massive tome Philokalia.

Digenes Akritas is an epic poem from the Byzantine Empire. It follows the exploits of the titular hero in the Byzantine ...

Athens and Cairo have agreed to preserve the status of the historic St. Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai, the world’s oldest ...

THE ANNUAL FESTIVAL AT ANNUNCIATION GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH IS HAPPENING SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. JOINING ME NOW IN STUDIO IS MARIA. THANKS SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE. THANKS FOR HAVING ME. THIS IS A ...

The Estonian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (MPEÕK) faces a critical choice: Break free from Moscow's yoke or ...

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 ...

With only 19 parishes in his eparchy, the new bishop of Holy Protection of Mary Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Phoenix, Artur ...

During the pivotal battle to break the siege of the Acropolis of Athens in 1827, Turkish forces attacked the fortified Greek camp in Kastella but were repelled. This conflict followed Kütahı Pasha’s ...

Congratulations to the boys' and girls' teams from St. Nick's Greek Orthodox Church in Baltimore for their outstanding performance at the weekend basketball tournament in Gaithersburg! Both teams ...

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, ...

Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, talks with OSV News during his 2025 visit to the U.S. from Ukraine.

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 ...