One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth century, and with a history surrounded in myth, legend and controversy, it ...

When Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in Wilkes-Barre has its Greek Food Festivals, I often stop by to write a story, and I can pretty much count on running into Tom Iliadis cooking up gyros and ...

The Annunciation ... salvation according to the Orthodox Christian tradition. The story telling spans the entire ceiling and begins with the creation of the world. Greek artist Konstantinos ...

Sofatzis’ family, including most of his seven siblings, three in-laws, and five nephews, will also have a big family lunch on Easter Sunday — but Greek Orthodox style. The priest, who is an ...

‘The Greek [icon] painter is the slave of ... Deprived of the world’s finest private collection outside the Orthodox world, the great bequests already held by the museum sunk into obscurity. The icons ...

From there, Loverdos said, the delegation will travel to Jerusalem, where after meeting with Patriarch Theofilos III, the Head of the Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem, who also performs the Holy ...

On Sunday, 40 close family and friends will gather at her uncle Tasso's home to celebrate Greek Orthodox Easter. "The family will have three generations ranging from my dad Costa, who is 90 years ...

Greek owner Cosmoship Management is believed to be close to securing a Chinese-built ultramax in a deal suggesting a value decrease in the wake of US action against such tonnage. Greek brokers and ...

An Orthodox Church in Crete stands unique in Greece for integrating icons of heroes from the Greek War of Independence into its iconography. Among them, Kolokotronis, Karaiskakis, Papaflessas, ...

When finished, the artistic depiction of Christ ascending in glory, surrounded by Theotokos, or Mary ... a priest at St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church. The icons are not worshipped, but ...

It also established the borders of the modern Turkish state and set the terms by which the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate was allowed to remain in the country, with the stipulation that the patriarch ...