The country’s first official flag to fly over Greek land, not sea, was a stark white cross over a deep blue background. The ...

Working as a laundress, she earned enough money to be able to send him to a parish school, later entered him in the Orthodox Theological ... for the collection of arms, to organize workshops ...

The panel painting portrays the crucified Christ with his arms outstretched on the cross ... The oldest icon of Jesus Christ and the Crucifixion is in St Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai, Egypt, from the ...

(RNS) — Orthodox Judaism, both in the United States and Israel, has typically espoused a right-wing political orientation and unconditional support for Israel. These Jews beg to differ.

Parts of Hackney’s Orthodox Jewish community have hit out against “excessive state intervention” in the borough’s faith schools, claiming new legislation could “erode religious freedom”.

Nestled on a rugged peninsula in northern Greece, Mount Athos has been a center of Eastern Orthodox monasticism for over a millennium. Officially established as a monastic community in 1054 ...

A delegation of 47 parliamentarians from 10 countries visited St. Catherine’s Monastery ... As part of the Orthodox Parliamentary Assembly's official programme in Egypt, running from 10 March ...

A Buddhist monastery in Bangladesh has found renown for opening its doors to the needy during the holy month of Ramadan — a beacon of interfaith harmony in a time of religious tension.

NATO countries in Europe more than doubled their arms imports in the past five years, more than 60 percent of which were purchases of US weaponry, researchers on Monday. The findings by the ...