The Akathist Hymn, which is chanted on the first five successive Fridays of Lent in the Eastern Orthodox Church, is dedicated ...

After several years in Orthodoxy, one man found a service of Christmas carols in a Protestant church "shocking, even appalling." Compared to the Orthodox hymns of Christ's Nativity, "'the little Lord ...

A Greek Orthodox monastery in Italy, founded more than one thousand years ago is thriving just south of Rome in the epicenter of Catholicism.

7, 2024 12:01 a.m. On a blustery, snowy Saturday afternoon at Twin Lakes Park east of Greensburg, a little over a dozen people huddled in a semicircle, singing hymns and watching intently for the Rev.

In Orthodox synagogues, these prayers happen at sunset, whereas in Reform synagogues they happen at a set time. Shabbat is welcomed with hymns, prayers and psalms called Kabbalat Shabbat.