Archaeologist-guide Portokalenia Vratsali will passionately regale you with the finer details of key attractions such as the Palace of the Grand Master, the 11th-century Church of Our Lady of the ...

Built to be a 'New Jerusalem', the town of Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is revered by the country's Orthodox Christians for its 11 churches. These are not normal ... There’s the Propylaea (ceremonial ...

The letter was delivered by Cardinal Kurt Koch during his visit to Istanbul for the patronal feast of the Orthodox Church.

St. Gregory Palamas lived in Greece in the 14th century. The Byzantine Emperor himself helped raise and educate St. Gregory, but the saint left the court to become a humble ...

The Byzantine liturgy is based on liturgy developed by St. James for the Antiochaian church, but modified by St. Basil (329-379) and St. John Chrysostom (344-407). This liturgy is similar if not ...

A new archaeometric study has identified the origins of marble objects from the early Byzantine villages of Porphyreon and ...

Parts of Hackney’s Orthodox Jewish community have hit out against “excessive state intervention” in the borough’s faith schools, claiming new legislation could “erode religious freedom”.

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish family takes part in the tashlich ritual, to symbolically cast away sins, ahead of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, in Ashdod, Israel, October 3, 2022.

The word "church" in common language has many meanings depending on the context. This is the story ... Origin of the English word 'church' The English word "church" itself is Anglo-Saxon in origin.

When you think of Byzantine emperors, you don’t necessarily think of rising thrones, machines and automations. Credit: Skylitzes Chronicle, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. When you think about ...

Credit: Duccio di Buoninsegna, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain The Byzantine Empire is not always recognised as the crucial link that connected the classical world with modern Europe. However, this ...