The Orthodox distinctiveness lies particularly in the preparation period, which includes a fast starting on November 15—longer than Advent in the Catholic tradition. This liturgical period ...

Holy Myrrhbearers Orthodox Christian Church in Mount Crawford is in the process of having its walls painted. But these are ...

I grew up with avgolemono soup, a classic Greek dish that traditionally combines chicken and rice with the special avgolemono sauce. My dad — who also makes a delicious Greek pasta and a baklava ...

Cyprus has a population of about 1.1 million, nearly 82 percent of whom follow the Greek Orthodox Church and celebrate Easter ... who then carry them around the church while following an icon of ...

[Rev. Nicon Archbishop Iakovos, Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church in the Americas, (Pleasantville, NY: Hellenic Heritage Publications, 1992), 232] In the Eastern tradition of the Divine Liturgy ...

In Greece, Orthodox Easter is celebrated with an entire week of festivities ... Devout followers are said to light an oil candle inside the home beside their icon-candle and keep this light burning ...

Two major Greek shipowners have fixed out LR2 product tanker newbuildings ahead of delivery, brokers say. Atlas Maritime has chartered the 115,100-dwt Stavanger Star (built 2025) to Trafigura on a ...

But I can address the difference between Hasidic and Orthodox Jews. It’s the same as the difference between New Yorkers and Americans, or the difference between the French and Europeans, i.e., one is ...

But most Eastern Orthodox celebrate Christ's birth on January ... A team of artists started painting these icons in 2003, and finished a few years later. "The lead artist Uglishe Melitios, said ...

All this from a young man who turned a series on its head against the best bowler in the world batting on a fresh cabbage patch and had to suffer an icon of the game attempting to physically ...

They also visit the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to see the probable sites of the Crucifixion and the ... Jonathan, who’s editor of the Orthodox Arts Journal, says the Orthodox Church considers that ...

For time or health reasons, I have referred others whom I have counseled to other rabbonim (plural for: Orthodox rabbis) I respect. Although it is perfectly appropriate for a rav (singular for ...