For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas — or Father Spyridon, as he’s affectionately called — has prayed, worked and ...

Father Spyridon has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in a monastery carved into a cliffside high above the Aegean Sea ...

Fall from these structures, as monks often did during their perilous, devotion-proving construction, and you’d have many ...

The monk who lives in the cliffs of a Greek tourist island - For more than 50 years, Father Spyridon has welcomed the ...

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, ...

But for Orthodox interlocutors, it is aligned with something called the Old Calendar in the Orthodox Church ... Being in a rural, very isolated area actually was critical, not only for the monks, but ...

Mario Tama/Getty Images On January 28, 2024, Yisroel Liebb, a 20-year-old Orthodox Jewish man, was flying from Tulum, Mexico, to Houston, Texas, before connecting to New York, the Independent ...

Mohan Meakin-made Old Monk remains one of the most popular dark rums in India, with a devoted fan base. Since its introduction in 1954, it has gained a reputation for its smooth and rich flavour. The ...

Some have decided to accept the call-up, including 21-year-old Uriel Cohen from Israel's largest ultra-Orthodox city, Bnei Brak. Arriving at the draft centre with a duffel bag over his shoulder ...

St. Patrick's Day may be widely associated with Roman Catholic traditions, but a Greek Orthodox church in Grevena, northern Greece, has long honored Ireland's beloved patron saint. While revelers in ...

In a moving ceremony held at the Old Railway Station, followed by the annual Memorial March marking the 82nd anniversary of the departure of the first train to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp—where 50,000 ...