Orthodox Christians

The Desolation of a Monk’s Dreams — The Monastery of St. George

November 22, 2013 Featured News

  Rick Steves – 22 11/13 Hiding in folds of the Judean Desert are ancient monasteries which, since ancient times, have given hermits the desolation of their dreams. Orthodox Christians — whether from Palestine, Greece, Russia, or Ethiopia — enliven these monasteries today, as they have since the sixth century. Orthodox Christians maintain a rich […]

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What Do Orthodox Christians Believe?

November 20, 2013 Featured News

20/11/13 What do Orthodox Christians believe? How do their beliefs differ from the rest of Christianity? Can they differ in beliefs and still claim to hold to the truth? What Does Orthodox Mean? The word “orthodox” essentially means conventional and when it is tied to religion, we see that the Orthodox Christians hold to conventional […]

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Bulgarian Orthodox Christians Mark Christmas Shrove

November 14, 2013 News

14/11/13 Bulgarian Orthodox Christians have one more day before they enter on Friday a 40-day fast that will end on December 24, Christmas Eve. The Christmas Fast is the second longest after the seven-week Eastern Fast. On November 14, Bulgarian Orthodox Christians mark Koledni Zagovezni, or Christmas Shrove, which is the last day on which […]

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Orthodox Christians Hail St. Demetrius

October 27, 2013 Featured News

27/10/13 Orthodox Christians in Bulgaria, Greece and other churches observing the Gregorian calendar are celebrating Saturday the holiday of St. Demetrius. Known as Dimitrovden in Bulgaria – meaning the Day of St. Dimitar – the feast is an important church and traditional holiday. St. Demetrius of Thessaloniki, a Christian martyr who lived in the 4th […]

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Bulgarian Orthodox Christians Celebrate Petkovden

October 14, 2013 Featured News

14/10/13 The Bulgarian Orthodox Church celebrates Petkovden on Monday, October 14, a day that marks the beginning of the winter in the country. On this day, the Bulgarian Christian-Orthodox honor Saint Petka-Paraskeva Tarnovska. October 14 in Bulgaria is commonly known as Petkovden. Reverend Petka was born near the Sea of Marmara in the 11th century. After leading a ‘godly life’ St. Petka’s relics, which […]

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The Golden Dawn nightmare: The Orthodox Church and Greece’s war against neo-Nazism

October 8, 2013 Featured News

Demetrios Bathrellos – 8/10/13 Antonis was a fellow student of mine at high school back in 1984. He believed in the superiority of the Greek race and belonged to a strange political organization called Golden Dawn. He and his like-minded friends were not violent, at least not at school, and some were even excellent students. […]

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Orthodox Christians mark 1,700th anniversary of edict of Milan

October 7, 2013 Featured News

By Aleksandar Vasovic Editing by Zoran Radosavljevic and Andrew Roche 6/10/13 NIS, Serbia (Reuters) – Eight Orthodox Christian leaders, dignitaries from other faiths, politicians and thousands of others on Sunday celebrated the anniversary of the Edict of Milan, which established toleration for Christianity in the Roman Empire 1,700 years ago. Roman Catholic Pope Francis was not […]

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Bishop of Baku and Caspian region addresses Orthodox Christians regarding upcoming presidential elections in Azerbaijan

September 24, 2013 News

24/9/13 Baku. Mubariz Aslanov – APA. Bishop Alexander of Baku and the Caspian region has addressed the Orthodox Christians regarding the upcoming presidential elections in Azerbaijan. APA reports that at the meeting in the Caucasian Muslims Board the Bishop has today called on the Orthodox Christians to vote for Ilham Aliyev. He said that Heydar […]

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Orthodox Church hoping for growth

September 14, 2013 Featured News

14/9/13 FONTANA — “God willing, we’ll continue to grow and build a permanent home for our church in the future.” Maria Klesmith is a member of the small but still-growing group of Orthodox Christians in Fontana. Every Sunday, the home church on Highway 67 fills with 18 to 40 people from the area. While the […]

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Georgian Orthodox Christians Protest Minaret Restoration

August 31, 2013 News

31/8/13 A group of Orthodox Christians in Georgia’s southern Samtskhe-Javakheti Province are protesting the restoration of the minaret of a local mosque. Activists in the region’s capital, Akhaltsikhe, blocked a road leading to the village of Chela on August 29 in an attempt to stop the return of the dismantled minaret. Local authorities removed the […]

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Panepirotic Federation Condemns Brutal Attack Against Greek Orthodox Christians in Albania

August 31, 2013 Featured News

Anastasios Papapostolou – 31/8/13 The Panepirotic Federation of America (POA) strongly condemns the brutal attack on a Greek Orthodox church in the city of Premet in southern Albania on August 16 by hired government thugs who smashed icons and crosses and beat up worshippers trying to defend the only Christian house of worship in the […]

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Orthodox Christians convene at ancient Sumela monastery

August 18, 2013 News

World Bulletin / News Desk – 18/8/13 A religious ceremony by Orthodox Christians began at Sumela Monastery in Macka district of northern Trabzon province in Turkey. The Sumela Monastery is 1600 year old ancient Orthodox monastery located at a 1200 meters height on a steep cliff at Macka region of Trabzon city in Turkey. The […]

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Eastern Orthodox Christians practice ancient faith

August 9, 2013 News

By Angela Ward award@news-journal.com - 9/8/13 TYLER — Ask most East Texans about the major divisions of Christianity and their response will probably mention only two of the three: Roman Catholics and Protestants. The third branch of Christianity, Eastern Orthodox, is relatively unknown in most of the southern United States, but that’s beginning to change. The Rev. […]

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Bulgarian Orthodox Christians Mark Transfiguration of Christ

August 6, 2013 Featured News

On August 6 the Bulgarian Orthodox Church celebrates the Transfiguration of Jesus Christ (Sveto Preobrazhenie Gospodne). According to the Church, this is the day that Christ strengthened the belief of his disciples in his holy origin by transfiguring himself in front of the eyes of Peter, Jacob and John.Preobrazhenie starts fifty days of fasting (fish […]

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Putin concerned about violation of rights of Orthodox Christians in Mideast, N. Africa (updated)

July 26, 2013 Featured News

 Moscow, July 25, Interfax – Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed his concerns about what he sees as infringement on the rights of religious minorities, particularly Orthodox Christians, in the conflicts in the Middle East and Northern Africa. “I must note with alarm and pain that interdenominational tensions are growing and the rights of religious […]

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Belgian FM meets with Syrian Orthodox Christians

June 30, 2013 News

30/6/13 BRUSSELS, June 29 (KUNA) — Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Didier Reynders met in Brussels late Friday with representatives of the Syrian Orthodox community in Belgium. According to a Belgian Foreign Ministry statement, the delegation was accompanied by Father Samuel Gumus, Assistant to the Patriarch of the Syrian Orthodox Church […]

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Bulgarian Orthodox Christians Mark Pentecost

June 24, 2013 News

24/6/13 Fifty days after Easter, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church is feasting on Sunday Pentecost (Whitsunday), also called Holy Trinity. On this day the Church commemorates the Descent of the Holy Ghost upon the Apostles, fifty days after the Resurrection of Christ. It also has the name of Whitsunday, because of the white garments worn by […]

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The Story of Mount Athos’ Panagia Portaitissa

June 9, 2013 Featured News

Stella Tsolakidou - 8/6/13 One of the most important relics of Mount Athos besides the icon of Axion Esti, is the Virgin Mary Portaitissa (meaning in Greek “Keeper of the Gate”) or the Iveron Theotokos as it is also known. Its history has made many people cry and others to believe, while it is considered one of […]

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Visiting the ‘Holy Mountain’ Athos in Greece

June 1, 2013 Featured News

The Monastic Republic of Mount Athos 1/6/13 There’s an autonomous region in Greece that’s home to the “Holy Mountain.” It’s one of the holiest sites for Orthodox Christians. About 2,000 monks live there. But anyone can visit, as long as they’re male. Reporter Matthew Brunwasser spent four days in Mount Athos, among the monks and […]

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Norwich Syrian Orthodox Christians celebrate St George

May 18, 2013 News

18/5/13 Norfolk members of one of the oldest Christian denominations in the world – the Syrian Orthodox Church – celebrated the feast St George, a major festival in their yearly calendar at the weekend (May 12). Mike Wiltshire reports. The congregation is one of an increasing number of vibrant ethnic churches in Norwich, despite the […]

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At a Jerusalem parlor, centuries of pilgrim tattoos

May 16, 2013 Featured News
Wassim Razzouk tattoos an Ethiopian Christian Orthodox pilgrim in a hotel in Jerusalem, Monday, May 13, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Dusan Vranic)

    Wassim Razzouk tattoos an Ethiopian Christian Orthodox pilgrim in a hotel in Jerusalem. (photo credit: AP/Dusan Vranic)  DANIELA BERRETTA and IAN DEITCH 14/5/13 Orthodox Christians ink themselves with a permanent reminder of their visit with a family that has practiced the art form for generations. AP — Orthodox Christians visiting the Holy Land often return […]

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The Politics of Human Rights: Orthodox Christianity Gets the Short End, by Dr. Elizabeth H. Prodromou

May 9, 2013 News

W ashington, D.C. 5/8/2013 Today is Easter for the world’s 350 million Orthodox Christians, who just completed their Holy Week of prayer and fasting  which culminated in today’s message of transcendent hope.  But all last week and today, Orthodox Christians the world over have been reminded that politics trumps human rights.  There’s a cruel irony […]

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Are Turkey’s Orthodox Christians Waiting for Godot?

May 8, 2013 Featured News
Metropolitan Apostolos Daniilidis, an Orthodox bishop at the monastery attached to the Halki school, is seen at

  Orhan Kemal Cengiz for Al-Monitor Turkey Pulse - 7/5/13 The memorable play of Irish author and playwright Samuel Beckett, “Waiting for Godot,” has become a metaphor for situations in which people wait for someone unlikely to come, or do not even know what they are expecting. They just keep waiting and waiting. The handful of […]

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Syria: Orthodox Christians celebrate Easter in tears

May 7, 2013 News

7/5/13 The Orthodox Churches in Syria celebrated Easter on Sunday – but the Chaldean Bishop Antoine Audo of Aleppo said: ” while they sang ‘Christ is risen’, and while repeating those words of joy and victory – all their prayers mingled with their tears. ” Not only is the Christian community suffering grave shortages of […]

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Nazarbayev attends Easter service in Uspensky Cathedral

May 6, 2013 Featured News

6/5/13 Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev visited Uspensky Cathedral, Kazakhstan’s major orthodox church, on Easter Sunday, Tengrinews.kz reports. “Dear fellow-countrymen, the whole Orthodox world is celebrating the most important holiday, the Easter, today. The Easter symbolizes renewal and rebirth and is important to our country that is reviving and becoming a better place, a new country where people […]

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