Photo provided by St. George Greek Orthodox Church, New Castle, PA and used with permission. "Rejoice, unfading rose. Rejoice, the only one who budded forth the unfading apple. Rejoice, birth-giver of ...

On Friday, the Greek Orthodox Church called for an emergency meeting to discuss a major reform to be launched. The move comes after the Church was rocked by overwhelming scandals on sex and finance ...

(Image) Great Colonnade at Apamea, Syria. Credit : wikimedia commons / Vyacheslav Argenberg CC BY-SA 4.0 The sudden political developments in Syria have the Greek Orthodox community and Christians on ...

As his military honor guard salutes, the Morehouse College Glee Club sings the 'Battle Hymn of the Republic,' honoring Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States.

Two Greek Orthodox Christians in Wadi al-Nasara (Valley of the Christians ... indicating that there were other motives. Murdered on December 13, their funeral procession began the next day in the ...

New Delhi: The head of the Malankara Orthodox Church, Baselios Marthoma Mathews III, has informed the Supreme Court that the funeral rites conducted in the cemeteries of the Malankara Church’s ...

The story of the Greek Orthodox custom of the Vasilopita, or the New Year’s cake with a lucky coin inside, began in Asia Minor, and more specifically in the city of Caesarea in Cappadocia, more than ...

which has hit the city’s Orthodox Jewish population hard. Despite the New York Police Department’s knowledge of the funeral beforehand, the crowd grew unmanageable and ultimately was dispersed ...

You can hear the hymn in churches of all denominations. But you can also hear it played on bagpipes at a military or first-responder funeral. The hymn was sung during the civil rights movement of ...