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, ...

With the Muslim fasting season coinciding with Christian Lent this year, the usual contingent of Christian leaders was especially august on March 11, with Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III ...

Icon of Saint Patrick, patron saint of Ireland. Public Domain St. Patrick’s Day may be widely associated with Roman Catholic traditions, but a Greek Orthodox church in Grevena, northern Greece, has ...

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Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jews were once exempt from military service — but now they are being drafted. One of those new draftees, Yechiel Wais, was excited, hoping the military would help him ...

The Niki party hold ten seats of the 300 in the Greek parliament and advocates a fundamentalist vision of Greek Orthodox Christianity. Lawyers for Papadopoulos claimed their client was being ...

In its first week of streaming availability (the 7-day period that ended on February 26), Triptych racked up 50.7 million hours viewed around the world. Separated-at-birth stories like Triptych ...