In Orthodox Christian iconography, a peculiar icon of Saint Christopher can be seen, depicting him with a dog's head.

Controversy followed after an artist's works were vandalized by a Greek MP, labeling them as blasphemous for distorting ...

This mystical site, which sits along one of Europe's most beautiful stretches of coastline, is one of the continent's last ...

Prologue An Orphic hymn says that Kypris, Aphrodite of Cyprus, was the “scheming mother of necessity.” She controlled and ...

Screening March 16 at the Boca International Jewish Film Festival, 'Guns & Moses' targets all-too-real themes for US Jews ...

The matter of icon veneration, which is big in the Roman Catholic camp, but especially in the Eastern Orthodox tradition, is ...

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 ...

Orthodox Easter occurs anywhere from mid-April to early May ... who then carry them around the church while following an icon of Christ. This is done to recall Jesus’ Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem.

Comparatively speaking, the fifth century CE is not an era from which there is much information outside the failing Roman ...

The struggle of the enslaved Greeks against their ruthless rulers, the Ottoman Turks, officially started on the 25th of March 1821 ...

In his Sunday homily on March 9, Patriarch John X of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch addressed ... “Mr. President,” the patriarch continued, “the icon of the Virgin Mary has been ...

(Reuters) - French media regulator Arcom has ordered Eutelsat to cease broadcasting Russian channels STS and Channel 5, after ...