Monday, Feb. 23, marks Clean Monday on the Orthodox ecclesiastical calendar, the commencement of Great Lent for the Orthodox Christian faithful

The Greek Orthodox Monastery of St. Catherine is the oldest continuously functioning monastery in the world. It was thrust into the limelight when an Egyptian appeals court ruled against its ownership status

Head of Orthodox Church in Albania remains in an Athens hospital's ICU

Additionally, groups of more than five individuals are not allowed, unless they are college students, pupils or military personnel

It’s taken more than a… millennium, but a modern supermarket has finally opened its doors on the venerable Mount Athos peninsula in northern Greece, the promontory where a semi-autonomous Orthodox monastic community has flourished since the 10 century A.D. The new store was finally licensed and opened in the all-male monastic polity’s capital of Karyes […]