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For about the past 10 years, the Archives Committee has set up shop during the Greek Festival to sell icons — mostly ...
Orthodox believers celebrate the appearance of the Zhirovichi Icon of the Mother of God, one of the most revered icons in ...
The Rabbis tell us that on the morning of the day we’d receive the Torah, we overslept. We didn’t wake up, and Moses had to wake us. To atone for that, we don’t even go to sleep, now we’re reliving ...
The remarkable legacy of Saint John the Russian continues to thrive in Greece, where his revered relics are enshrined in a ...
Orthodox Church Leader Says Faith Is Humanity's Safeguard Against the 'Impending Robotocracy' ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians has said that ...
Gen. Eyal Zamir has instructed the Personnel Directorate to immediately provide a plan to “expand and maximize” the number of draft orders sent to members of the ultra-Orthodox community ...
Icon has partnered with the Museum of Australian Democracy (MoAD) to launch Question of the Day, a creative campaign aimed at helping Australians critically engage with the information they ...
gives participants to mark the start of the ritual in the "konaki" -- a room decorated with Orthodox icons where participants prepare by dancing to the sound of the lyre and the drum. When ready ...
When Donald Trump rode a wave of cross-cultural support back into the White House last November, many Orthodox Jews — four out of five, according to one poll — celebrated. He was their ...
ISTANBUL (RNS) — Initial reports that the centuries-old St. Catherine's Monastery would be closed were denied, but Orthodox leaders ... priceless manuscripts and icons. The monastery, whose ...