The commemoration of Nicaea recalls the first of the Ecumenical Councils, convened in 325, when the Church, under the ...
The Council of Nicaea gathered an already overwhelmingly Gentile Christianity, debating the identity of a Jewish Messiah in Greek philosophical terms, at a moment when Arian and semi-Arian currents ...
Catholicos Baselios Mar Thoma Mathews III meets Pope Tawadros II in Cairo to strengthen ties and discuss key issues.
The world is living in 2025, but in Ethiopia, it’s 2018, because the Ethiopian Ge’ez calendar lags behind the Gregorian calendar by 7-8 years. The Ethiopian New Year begins in September. They call it ...
The museum presents a trove of dazzling objects given by European rulers to Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulcher in the 17th and 18th centuries.
"While no human lives and livestock have been lost so far, many villages have been covered in ash and as a result their ...
It was my mother who first mentioned the Queen of Sheba. The royal name is one of my earliest memories. When someone annoyed her, I’d wait for my mother to mutter, “Who does she think she is—the Queen ...
You have to give writer-director Lofty Nathan points for originality. His new film, The Carpenter’s Son, is not just any ...
Kimberly Guilfoyle, the first female U.S. ambassador to Greece, has visited the head of Greece’s Orthodox Church. On Thursday ...
On a Friday afternoon in the fall of 2017, a few months after the liberation of Mosul from the Islamic State, a group of neighbors gathered at Mar Mattai, a monastery founded in the fourth century.
Palm Sunday marks the day Jesus rode into Jerusalem, where he was greeted by cheering crowds bearing palm fronds, according to the Bible.