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

Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, Theodore II has pledged to construct a ;nursing school and hospital in Lwemiyaga, Ssembabule district in appreciation for the hospitality of the people ...

Wikimedia Commons) Coptic Orthodox Egyptologist Ashraf ... blessings The most dramatic reaction came from Egypt. Gathering at the Monastery of Saint Bishoy, the residence of Patriarch Tawadros ...

A new film, "The 21," recounts the beheadings 10 years ago of 21 Coptic Christians by ISIS radicals. But the film also ...

Leaders in the church have said that Uganda must address growing political tensions and human rights violations, particularly among political leaders, ahead of the elections. Thank you for reading ...

Athens and Cairo have agreed to preserve the status of the historic St. Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai, the world’s oldest ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. Cyprus has a population of about 1.1 million, nearly 82 percent of whom follow the Greek Orthodox Church and celebrate Easter accordingly, ...

Amash, a Republican from the Grand Rapids area, said in October 2023 that several of his relatives were killed in a blast at St. Porphyrius Orthodox Church in Gaza ... Arbor is the son of Egyptian ...

Pro-democracy activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah, 43, has been detained in Egypt since September 29 2019, and in December 2021 was sentenced to five years in prison after being accused of spreading false ...

The New Orleans Saints are the last team standing in the 2025 NFL offseason head-coaching carousel. The team fired head coach Dennis Allen amid a disastrous 2024-25 campaign, one in which the ...

Once, on a road trip in Greece, I stopped with my husband and dad at a centuries-old Orthodox monastery to view ... I can never resist meeting a new saint. The relic, it turned out, was the ...