New Zealand on 'dangerous path' with legalized euthanasia, ethicist says
- Oct 30, 2020
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Fewer people but deep faith on Greece’s Assumption holiday
- Aug 16, 2020
For nearly 200 years, Greek Orthodox faithful have flocked to the Aegean island of Tinos for the August 15 feast day of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, the most revered religious holiday in the Orthodox calendar after Easter.
Eastern Christians mark Easter in shuttered Jerusalem church
- Apr 19, 2020
A handful of Eastern Orthodox priests held mass for the Christian holiday of Easter on Sunday in an empty Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem due to restrictions in place to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus.
Cuomo: Rebuilding of church lost in 9/11 attacks to resume
- Jan 3, 2020
Two years after a lack of funds halted construction of a marble-clad Greek Orthodox church at New York’s World Trade Center site, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Greek Orthodox officials announced plans Thursday to resume construction with the goal of finishing the rebuilding by the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Pope gives relics of St. Peter to Orthodox patriarch
- Jul 2, 2019
In what Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople described as a “brave and bold” gesture, Pope Francis gave the patriarch a famous reliquary containing bone fragments believed to belong to St. Peter.
Long home to vampire lore, Transylvania today has new Blesseds
- Jun 2, 2019
On Sunday in Romania, Pope Francis beatified seven bishops of the Eastern rite church who refused to abandon their faith under the communist dictatorship, which wasn’t overthrown until 1989.
Orthodox Church to move forward with Ukrainian independence
- Oct 12, 2018
Ukraine’s president on Thursday hailed the announcement by Orthodoxy’s Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople that it will move forward with granting Ukrainian clerics independence from the Russian Orthodox Church.
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