Discover Texas winter food festivals that turn cold weather into a feast, from chili cook-offs to sausage celebrations and ...

From the "big ones" in Lexington (part of the Snowball Festival) and Columbia (the Carolina Carillon), to community parades ...

“In the whole history of the Orthodox Church in America, this has never been seen,” a priest said about the surge of young men drawn to the demanding practice of Christianity. “The Orthodox Church is ...

CORRECTION: The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Porfirije, met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Patriarch Kirill in Moscow in April. An earlier version of this story included ...

Here we have it, an eloquent, written, English description of the ins and outs of the Sigd Holiday. Let me summarize with additions: Origin: The Book of Nehemiah, Chapter 9, which describes the ...

The acclaimed Ethiopian-American artist Meklit Hadero released her new album A Piece of Infinity on September 26 on the Smithsonian Folkways label, and recently released sessions of these new ...

From a bird's-eye view high above St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican, a stunning photograph shows the estimated 250,000 ...

Pope Leo and Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew celebrated the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea by praying the Creed and urging Christian unity.

A long-dormant volcano in northern Ethiopia has erupted, sending plumes of ash across the Red Sea towards Yemen and Oman. The Hayli Gubbi volcano in the Afar region of Ethiopia, located about 800 ...

St. John Chrysostom is one of the most revered fathers of the Church, whose sermons and writings have become part of the spiritual heritage of the entire Orthodox world. He is called a golden-tongued ...

Hanukkah is Judaism’s “festival of lights.” On eight consecutive nightfalls, Jews gather with family and friends to light one ...

Warning: This report contains descriptions of rape and sexual violence. Names of victims have been changed and identifying details omitted to protect their privacy and safety. Enat was at home with ...