A grandmother and her grandchild watch the “Nowruz” ceremony in Besaran Village, Kurdistan, Iran, 2017. (Photo by Salar Arkan / CC BY-SA 4.0) On March 20, Iranians rang in the year 1404 of the ...

Orthodox Christian commemoration of St. Basil the Great, who wrote a Eucharist Liturgy which bears his name. Remembrance of the naming of Jesus as a child based on the Gospel reading of the day.

Vladimir Putin accused Jews of attacking the Russian Orthodox Church and suggested that they lacked family and “roots,” the latest antisemitic statement from the Russian leader since his 2022 ...

On Friday, the Greek Orthodox Church called for an emergency meeting to discuss a major reform to be launched. The move comes after the Church was rocked by overwhelming scandals on sex and finance ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. Cyprus has a population of about 1.1 million, nearly 82 percent of whom follow the Greek Orthodox Church and celebrate Easter accordingly, ...