Jerusalem, Mar 26, 2024 / 17:00 pm. As the Catholic Church in the Holy Land entered Holy Week by literally retracing the steps of Jesus’ passion in Jerusalem, the Orthodox churches took their ...

For the world's 300 million Orthodox Christians, Easter is the holiest day of the religious year, when churches are normally packed with believers throughout the night as part of vigils and ...

Pilgrims inside the Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher hold their candles aloft after the “Holy Fire” was ignited inside Jesus' tomb on May 4, 2024, the day before the Orthodox Christian ...

The Holy Fire ceremony symbolising Jesus' resurrection was lit in a deserted Jerusalem on Saturday, without the joyful throng of Orthodox Christian pilgrims who normally attend a spectacle that ...

The Rev. Alexis Toth likely did not realize the full depth of what he was undertaking in 1890 when he reached out to the Russian Orthodox bishop in San Francisco.An Eastern Rite priest of the ...

• Christ Our Savior Orthodox Church. 7 p.m. Holy Thursday, April 29, Service of the Passion Gospels; 7 p.m. Holy Friday, April 30, Great Vespers/Procession with Plascanica Lamentations at the ...

Looking forward to celebrating the 125th anniversary of the Holy Resurrection Orthodox Cathedral are members of the clergy, from left, Protodeacon Keith Russin, the Very Rev. Joseph Martin ...

The recent Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox provides an opportunity to review the differences between the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. (photo: St. Petersburg Theological Academy ...

Jerusalem, May 5, 2024 / 09:00 am. Pilgrims gathered in Jerusalem on Saturday for the annual “Holy Fire” ceremony at the revered site of Jesus’ burial and resurrection, an ancient custom ...