"It’s the most holy holiday of our church," explained Marianne Balakos, Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church "Several million Christians all across the U.S., and many here in the Ohio Valley, celebrate ...

The date of Easter is tied to Passover and the lunar calendar, a formula set by church leaders nearly 1,700 years ago.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS/WVAH) — The Middle Eastern Dinner at St. George Eastern Orthodox Cathedral has been a Charleston tradition for more than 85 years. On Sunday community members from across ...

While much of the world has Christmas in the rearview mirror by now, people in some Eastern Orthodox traditions will celebrate the holy day on Sunday. Certain Eastern Orthodox churches, including ...

In Istanbul, Pope Leo XIV will meet the patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church to show amity between two of the world’s largest Christian groups. By Ben Hubbard and Motoko Rich Stephen Hubbard was a ...

The Eastern Orthodox patriarch of Constantinople has expressed a desire that Christians in the East and the West begin celebrating Easter on a “unified date” rather than adhere to separate Lenten ...

Centuries of dispute between Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches on how to calculate the date of Easter may come to an end if Pope Francis’ latest appeal is implemented. Meeting Nov. 19 with ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- St. Nicholas Eastern Orthodox Cathedral in Northern Liberties is hosting a Pierogi Festival on November 5 and 6. They are planning to sell around 16,000 pierogis that weekend.

Metropolitan Job, the Eastern Orthodox bishop of Pisidia and the permanent representative of the Ecumenical Patriarchate to the World Council of Churches, is attending the Synod on Synodality as a ...

Stephen Hubbard was a wanderer. But when he moved to Ukraine, the war brought arrest, torture and imprisonment. He turns 73 this week. By Kim Barker and Nataliya Vasilyeva The village parishioners’ ...