Easter, regarded as the most significant Christian holiday, is celebrated annually in Bulgarian homes with great joy. While ...

Easter is celebrated on the Sunday following the first full moon after the spring equinox, and the differences in dates between Catholic and Orthodox ... placed under the iconostasis or buried ...

Sharp-tongued space engineers dubbed this spot “iconostasis,” referring to ... had been undergoing a transformation. The Russian Orthodox Church, which has long had a broad influence on ...

Imagine stepping into a church that looks fully Orthodox—icons, incense, chanting, bearded priests—but it's actually Catholic ...

Panagia Vefa is a Greek Orthodox church in Istanbul, Turkey, where people of all faiths come to make a wish on the first day ...

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Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church Says Pope Francis Was Example of Christian Humility DUBAI (Reuters) - Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church mourned Pope Francis on Monday, saying he was "a true example of ...

For Putin, the Orthodox faith is central to his world view and he always attends services during major church holidays. For Orthodox Russians, Easter is the most important religious holiday.

During an Easter service at Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral held on Saturday night, Russian Orthodox Church head Patriarch Kirill referred to the holiday as a “victory day.” “Easter is a victory ...

But the two churches started using different calendars after Pope Gregory XIII’s adaptation in 1582, when the Western church adopted the Gregorian calendar while the Eastern Orthodox Church kept ...