Greek Easter is the most important religious and cultural celebration in Greece. In 2025, Greek Easter is celebrated on the ...

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, ...

Cyprus has a population of about 1.1 million, nearly 82 percent of whom follow the Greek Orthodox ... died on the following Friday, the death of Christ is observed “prospectively” on Holy Thursday and ...

Greece has declared a state of emergency on Santorini because of the hundreds of undersea earthquakes that have shaken the ...

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Sunday Open Talmud session: presented by Osher Marin JCC at 10 a.m. in person at 200 North San Pedro Road in San Rafael and on Zoom. Go to marinjcc.org or call 415-444-8002. Tu B'Shevat writing ...

Members of Spanish and Danish royal families have gathered in Athens for the wedding of Nikolaos, son of Greece’s late former ...

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 ...

“‘It is finished’; and he bowed his head and handed over his spirit.” On Good Friday, the entire Church fixes her gaze on the Cross at Calvary. Each member of the Church tries to ...

It was quite the command performance. Three Technicolor lions, their massive glittery heads covered in fur and festooned in lavish decorative patterns, gilded through the parish hall of St ...

In remarks offered at the Capitol Hill opening of the International Religious Freedom Summit Kick-Off Advocacy event, ...

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 ...