Leaders from the Catholic and Greek Orthodox Church visited Gaza’s only Catholic church on Friday, where a day earlier three ...

Close links between the Greek state and the Orthodox Church are turning from a blessing for the clergy into a curse as the debt-laden government struggles to fund the ancient institution, just as ...

Sunday after Sunday, in the whitewashed Greek Orthodox churches of the neighboring villages, priests delivered a warning—beware of those who would corrupt the church. But in tiny (pop. 220) ...

A priest was arrested in Rhodes after an Estonian tourist said he touched him inappropriately. Local media reported the tourist told police the Greek priest said he was "anointing" his genitals ...

Members of Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church are speaking out after leaders voted not to press charges against their former priest.

A scandal concerning illegally obtained EU agricultural subsidies has rocked Greece and led to a number of resignations.Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was unusually contrite at the ...

ATHENS, Greece — An effort by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of Greece to start severing cozy ties between the state and the Greek Orthodox Church, including taking priests off civil service ...

A Greek Orthodox priest who pleaded guilty to stealing more than $100,000 from his church to fuel a gambling addiction had his sentencing in front of a judge this week. Dozens of his family ...

Police hold a protesting Orthodox Priest during the visit of Pope Francis at the Archbishopric of Greece in Athens, Saturday, Dec. 4, 2021.

Police hold a protesting Orthodox Priest during the visit of Pope Francis at the Archbishopric of Greece in Athens, Saturday, Dec. 4, 2021. Pope Francis warned Saturday that the “easy answers ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Pope Francis was heckled by an elderly Greek Orthodox priest on Saturday as he arrived for a meeting with the head of the country’s Orthodox Church, evidence of the ...