A Greek Orthodox monk on Mount Athos, the center of Orthodox monasticism, died at the age of 82 without ever seeing a woman.

But when her first child was born, she was relieved it was a boy. “When my son was born ... Farber’s life is a case study in the obstacles that Orthodox women have faced in trying to study ...

Over a century after his tragic death, the memory of Hector Vasyli, a young Greek-Australian boy who died while welcoming ...

Eternal rest. It’s not something that most people want to talk about, and when you get older, you tend to check the newspaper ...

His maternal grandfather was Russian Orthodox. The cardinal-elect was “raised by Swiss missionaries” from baptism. The parish priest, who taught him how to pray and serve as an altar boy ...

(AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski) A young boy runs back to his pew during the Spanish-language Mass at St. Mary’s Catholic Church on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024, in Worthington, Minn. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski ...

His paternal grandfather was a Greek Orthodox priest, and when he was a little boy, Byron Papanikolaou played with a censer ... he still came to church every day, sang from the altar and worked in the ...

The Orthodox Church was ... who famously told him not to be “Putin’s altar boy.” It may even be, as Archbishop Elpidophoros ...

He had been raised an Orthodox Jew. I was perplexed as to how ... who grew up Catholic and was an altar boy. We have a huge Christmas tree with ornaments representing our favorite things, mainly ...

He began serving as an altar boy at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in 1926 at the age of 9 and founded its choir, which sang at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York City. He was honored in 2001 with ...

This is the only war Netanyahu is interested in these days, and it’s the war on whose altar he sacrifices a ... bill intended to bribe the ultra-Orthodox parties in the absence of a ...

"Dear blessed children," the words, repeated softly from the altar, have fallen silent with the passing of Catholicos ...