Across the world, Orthodox Christians were celebrating Easter on Sunday, commemorating the day followers believe Jesus was resurrected some 2,000 years ago. Roman Catholics and Protestants marked ...

Huge crowds of pilgrims on Saturday marked the “Holy Fire” ceremony at Christianity’s holiest site in Jerusalem’s Old City on the eve of Orthodox Easter. Some 10,000 Christians holding candles ...

ATHENS: Inside Greece’s Orthodox churches, candles are a symbol of faith and simplicity, slender and traditionally made of beeswax, and placed in large candleholders filled with sand. Outside, buyers ...

The Bulgarian Holy Synod has decided to double the price of candles sold at Orthodox churches across the country, citing financial reasons, local media reported on Sunday. The Holy Synod said last ...

Prayer service at the Cathedral of the Assumption, after the "enthronement" of Czar Putin. Prayers of the Patriarch of Moscow, joined by those of the Novodevichy Monastery, where the nuns sing psalms ...

Orthodox Christian believers observed Easter on Sunday, a week later than the religious holiday was celebrated this year by Western churches. In Russia, about 4.3 million people took part in an ...

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An employee holds candles that resemble COVID-19 test kits, vaccination syringes at a store in Athens, Greece, on Tuesday, April 19, 2022. Greeks celebrate Easter with other Orthodox Christians on ...