Anastasios played a key role in reviving the church in Albania, an independent branch of the Eastern Orthodox Church, after being elected to lead it in 1992 following the fall of the communist ...

The Dicastery for the Eastern Churches has prepared a pastoral guide ... to or built for Eastern Catholics and also for Eastern Orthodox,” he said.

The Dicastery for the Eastern Churches has prepared a pastoral guide ... to or built for Eastern Catholics and also for Eastern Orthodox,” he said. As a journalist, Victoria Cardiel has ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Archbishop Anastasios Yanoulatos, head of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania, leads the Easter ...

In the Orthodox calendar there are special memorial days - Parents' Saturdays. One of them precedes Shrovetide and Great Lent ...

Therefore, they could not be mistaken for pagan worshipers. Not all church buildings face east but some still hold to a mandate toward eastern orientation. Many Eastern Orthodox churches are built to ...

FILE PHOTO: Archbishop of Tirana, Durres and All Albania Anastasios holds a mass at Resurrection of Christ Orthodox Cathedral in Tirana Former Elmira church, built in the 1890s, destroyed by fire.

TIRANA, Albania — 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.

A young transgender man is suing an Orthodox monk from Greece's monastic community of Mount Athos (Agion Oros) following the monk's public remarks against him. According to reports from Greek ...

Greece has declared a state of emergency on Santorini after hundreds of undersea earthquakes shook the resort island for ...

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 ...

Vladimir Putin accused Jews of attacking the Russian Orthodox Church and suggested that they lacked family and “roots,” the latest antisemitic statement from the Russian leader since his 2022 ...