The Holy Dormition Stavropegic Monastery in Zhirovichi is rightly referred to as Belarus’ jewel of Orthodoxy At the beginning of ...

Mount Athos is home to twenty monasteries where only monks are allowed to live and only males are allowed to visit, women are ...

Hope in Christ and that God's truth will prevail amid Russia's war on Ukraine was the message that Major Archbishop ...

The beards of Orthodox priests are some of their most striking attributes, marking them as different from other Western ...

The Feast of Mary Help of Christians is celebrated on May 24. The tradition of this advocation goes back to 1571, when the whole of Christendom was saved by Mary Help of Christians when Catholics ...

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 ...

Mary is the "eschatological icon of the Church" (CCC 972), meaning the Church contemplates in Mary her own end of times. The definition of the dogma does not say how the transition from Mary's ...

An architectural masterpiece of the 13th to 16th centuries, Westminster Abbey has become a treasure house of artefacts. This is also the coronation church where some of the most significant people in ...

In Greece, Orthodox Easter is celebrated with an entire week of festivities ... Devout followers are said to light an oil candle inside the home beside their icon-candle and keep this light burning ...

Monarch’s favoured liturgical artist repairs Greek Orthodox chapel at Scottish castle that is home to the popular BBC reality show ...