Albanian Orthodox Church, a country whose culture and language were initially unfamiliar to him. The church, prohibited during the communist era, was only reestablished in 1991. During Albania's ...

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.

It was the high point of Soviet power. In this way it effectively told the outside world: East of the Iron Curtain is my domain; I allow no meddling and no derogation from orthodox communism. But at ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. In Greece, Orthodox Easter is celebrated with an entire week of festivities – aptly titled The Holy Week – with Good Friday, Easter Sunday, ...

A new report calls for the Russian Federation to be designated a state sponsor of terrorism, finding that Russia is ...

Today marks the 142nd anniversary of the birth of Nikos Kazantzakis, a prominent figure in Greek literature known for his ...

Japan is one of the destinations for the relokanty who left Russia after the invasion of Ukraine, also due to the presence of ...

Evangelicals in Ukraine do not favor a peace agreement that grants territory to Russia, as the Russian military already seeks ...

New report on occupied areas of Ukraine says Christians of various denominations forced to convert to Russian Orthodoxy ...

Momentous events are taking place in world affairs. America is finally breaking loose of its European chains. Despite being the most powerful country in the world, it remained a frontier nation that ...

Nikos Kazantzakis is for many the best Greek writer of the 20th century and his books have been translated more than his ...

I was standing outside the grand Stalin-era Science Academy when I saw it. A flicker of the past, beautifully forged into the ...