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Thousands of Orthodox Christians marked the feast day of Epiphany on Sunday with a traditional dip into icy water.

An Afghan woman living in Zell am See has scrawled Arabic lettering four times on objects, doors and the floor of the parish church, for example: "There is only one Allah." Her explanation in the ...

In Greece, Orthodox Easter is celebrated with an entire week of festivities – aptly titled ... Preparations for the jovial dinner begin early in the morning with the cooking of the maghiritsa – a type ...

a house church in eastern Syria, and now this structure in Megiddo. The mosaic floor appears to have been built for a Roman soldier named Gaianus. A perfectly preserved inscription reads ...

The Planning Board voted 5-2 Tuesday to postpone making a recommendation to the City Council on whether to approve a plan for First Church of Waterville on Park Street. WATERVILLE — After 18 ...

On Monday evening, protesters, some carrying Georgian and EU flags, came together to celebrate Orthodox Christmas at a church opposite the parliament building in the centre of Tbilisi. Most ...

The Kosovo Police has undertaken an operational plan on the occasion of Orthodox Christmas. This was announced by the deputy director of the Kosovo Police for the north, Veton Elshani. There is no ...

Stavrophor Rajko Kosic surveys about a hundred small bundles of straw and dried leaves that will be thrown onto a burning yule log during Holy Resurrection Serbian Eastern Orthodox Church’s ...

One exception to this rule, however, is the churches which continue to follow the Julian calendar. Most of these Eastern Orthodox Christians celebrate the Feast of Epiphany on January 19th, rather ...

Epiphany Koliva, a version of the ancient food eaten at funerals in Eastern Europe, is called Fotakoliva ... The word Φωτα indicates the festival for which it was also prepared. In the Greek Orthodox ...