The ancient Turkish city may need five more years to return its glory days with an ambitious architectural plan ...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania's Archbishop Anastasios, who revived the country's Orthodox Church after the fall of the communist regime in 1990, has died, the church said on Saturday. He was 95.

The latest round of iconography is being installed at St. Matthew Orthodox Church in Green Bay. Officials say the tradition ...

praised the late Anastasios in a letter addressed to the Holy Synod of the Albanian Orthodox Church. “The contribution of His Beatitude [Anastasios] will remain in the history of our country as ...

Archbishop Anastasios, an ecumenical movement leader credited with helping to revitalize the Orthodox Church in ...

ATHENS (Reuters) -Archbishop Anastasios, head of the Orthodox Church of Albania, died at a hospital in Athens at the age of 95 on Saturday, the church announced. Anastasios played a key role in ...

"You can bear all things, believe all things, hope all things, and endure all things. Because the love that empowers you ...

Orthodox Christians in Russia marked the feast day of Epiphany on Sunday with a traditional dip into icy water even as local emergencies issued weather warnings. Local media showed people bathing ...

Vladimir Putin accused Jews of attacking the Russian Orthodox Church and suggested that they ... “Doctors’ Plot” (1948-53),” he wrote. “History teaches us: hate must be challenged.

Greece’s government declared a state of emergency on Santorini on Thursday after hundreds of undersea earthquakes shook the resort island for nearly a week. The ministry of ...