Much of the cinema world has descended on the Cannes Film Festival as the French Riviera extravaganza holds its 78th edition.

The Diocesan Assembly Gala Banquet on Friday, May 2, 2025, was an uplifting evening of heartfelt tributes, capping a Diocesan ...

Contemporary art forms that take a critical look at the world and the strict religiosity of the haredim (ultra-Orthodox) are ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea. Rising from the rugged granite rock, its walls enclose ...

Ultra-Orthodox Jews dance around a bonfire during Lag BaOmer celebrations at the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews ...

The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea.

Mount Athos, a verdant peninsula in northern Greece, has been a center of Christian Orthodox monasticism for more than 1,000 ...

The monastery is one of 20 in the autonomous all-male monastic community of Mount Athos, known in Greek as Agion Oros, or ...

Following the death of Pope Francis at the age of 88 on April 21, 2025, social media users in Greece began re-sharing fabricated images that purportedly showed him wrapped in an LGBTQ pride flag.

Easter Sunday had seen many Orthodox leaders reflect on the significance of this year’s common date in Western and Eastern Churches and the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea.

ORTHODOX leaders paid tribute this week to Pope Francis, who was widely perceived as a bridge-builder committed to repairing the longstanding division between the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches.

The haredi (ultra-Orthodox) party United Torah Judaism announced on Wednesday that it considered itself released from prior agreements and that it would consult with its spiritual leadership ...