Religion

According to a recent study published in the Journal of Cultural Heritage, scientists claim that they have found traces of Byzantine coins on the famous Shroud of Turin, believed to be the linen cloth in which the dead body...

A group of people belonging to the Greek Orthodox community of the island of Tenedos celebrated the Orthodox feast day of Agia (Saint) Paraskevi on Thursday. Tenedos, now known in Turkey as Bozcaada, is an island in the Northeast Aegean...

Archbishop Nikitas of Thyateira and Great Britain was enthroned as the Head of the Greek Orthodox Church in London on Saturday. Hundreds of faithful Orthodox Christians and prominent members of the Greek and Cypriot communities in the UK gathered on...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis assured Archbishop Ieronymos on Tuesday that his government will not implement the agreement forced through by the previous leftist administration which sought to loosen relations between the state and the Orthodox Church. Mitsotakis said that...

The enthronement ceremony for Makarios, the new Archbishop of Australia, will take place on Saturday, June 29. The Greek Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of Australia issued a statement on the event saying ''All the faithful of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of...

The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged Turkey on Friday to immediately reopen the Greek Orthodox Christian Seminary of Halki, near Istanbul. During his initial remarks before the release of the 2018 Annual Report on International Religious Freedom in...

The first Muslim mosque to open for worship in Athens since the establishment of the modern Greek state is set to open its doors in the capital city this Friday. After numerous delays, for a variety of reasons, the mosque in...

June 6, 2019 is Ascension Day according to the Orthodox Christian Church. This great feast day in the Christian calendar has played a crucial role in Greek folk traditions throughout the centuries. For generation upon generation, Greeks have believed that...

The association of Greek archaeologists sent a letter recently to the Greek and Turkish ministries of culture as well as to the Greek branch of UNESCO regarding the state of the Hagia Sophia monument in Trabzon,Turkey. The archaeologists' letter focuses on...

American Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt met with the newly-elected Orthodox Archbishop of America Elpidophoros in Athens on Monday afternoon. With a picture of the two of them uploaded to his personal Twitter account, Pyatt informed the public of his...