This message from Patriarch Bartholomew was read March 17, 2024 in Orthodox parishes under the jurisdiction of Constantinople. He reminded the faithful that salvation is, above all, a “shared ...

Using Emperor Constantine’s famous vision of the cross, Archbishop Elpidophoros presented Trump with a holy cross, calling it ...

As Lebanon teeters on the edge, Beirut’s people live between resilience and ruin, caught in an unending cycle of conflict ...

Israel, Lebanon, France and the United States are creating working groups to discuss the Israel-Lebanon border ...

At St. Sava in McKeesport, the first Serbian Orthodox parish established east of the Mississippi River and the third oldest ...

Sharaa, whose fighters led the offensive that toppled the Assad family dynasty in December, has said he will build an inclusive society in a country with a delicate sectarian and religious mix.

Groups include the Greek Orthodox, Maronites, Syriac Orthodox and Catholics, Chaldeans, Assyrians, and Armenian Orthodox and Catholics. There also are a few Protestants. - The Druze, an Arab ...

While Catholic Uniate Christians, such as the Maronites, were a majority in some urban areas of Syria and Lebanon, Orthodox Christians were dispersed across the region and represented a small minority ...

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish family takes part in the tashlich ritual, to symbolically cast away sins, ahead of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, in Ashdod, Israel, October 3, 2022.

Hundreds of Christians, including Greek Orthodox, and Alawites have been killed after clashes ... They’re now breaking into Maronite houses in Tartous and killing and desecrating Christian Icons and ...

Forgiveness Sunday, also known as Cheesefare Sunday, marks the final Sunday before the start of Great Lent in the Greek Orthodox Church. This day emphasizes the themes of Adam and Eve’s exile from ...