With the intention of preserving Byzantine spiritual wisdom, Greek monk Nicodemus devoted his life to writing the massive tome Philokalia.

The Byzantine Empire was one of the first societies to offer its citizens some form of what we now call universal healthcare.

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Byzantine Greek is still the liturgical language of the Greek Orthodox church. More from Stratos Theodosiou, astrophysicist and president of the Greek Physicists Association, who has written more ...

As clergy and faithful present proclaimed “Axios! Axios! Axios!” (Greek for “He is worthy”), Fr. Artur Bubnevych was ...

Sitting in Chora's Kastro (castle) neighborhood, this whitewashed church dates to the Byzantine era and features a variety of religious decorations from the Middle Ages. In Greek, Panagia ...

Nikolaos de Grece and Chrysi Vardinogianni exchanged vows in an intimate Byzantine-style ceremony at the historic Church of ...