We encounter “convenient gods” in many countries where religion is used to drive political, military, and social agendas, such as Vladimir Putin’s nationalistic Orthodox Russia, Ayatollah ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. Cyprus has a population of about 1.1 million, nearly 82 percent of whom follow the Greek Orthodox Church and celebrate Easter accordingly, ...

The Byzantine contribution to education and higher learning is immense, despite often being overlooked. credit: Walters Art Museum / Public Domain / Wikimedia Commons The Byzantines, also known as the ...

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

And this led to a devastating trade war. The relationship between the Byzantine Empire and Venice had both its ups and downs, with the two engaging at some point in the most consequential trade war of ...

Rabbi Ari Berman delivering the benediction at Trump's 2025 Inauguration President Donald Trump once again turned to the Orthodox community to give a benediction on behalf of American Jewry at his ...

But well over 40 of them were completely unknown until the discovery in Upper Egypt of the Gnostic library containing the Gospel of Thomas and 43 other apocryphal writings. What has the study of ...

A common theory is that the Nag Hammadi Library, a collection of Gnostic texts, were an illegal stash of books hidden from Orthodox Christian authorities. But recent scholarship has called this ...