In April 2026, Orthodox believers will celebrate the culmination of Great Lent — Holy Week, dedicated to the last days of Christ's life. This is a time of special prayerful concentration and the ...

Sts. Peter and Paul Night at the Races, doors open at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, March 14, at the church’s Bernadine Hall, 13 Hudson Road, Plains. Post time is 7 p.m. Admission is $10, which includes food ...

Sometimes titles are deceiving. Sergei Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil, for instance, only lasts around an hour. But such is the music’s scope and aura that its fifteen movements can resonate in the ...

Georgia’s Patriarch Ilia II, the longtime head of the Georgian Orthodox Church and one of the country’s most influential ...

The longest-serving leader in the history of the Georgian Orthodox Church, he helped guide his country in its transition from Soviet repression to modern statehood.

The weeklong festival has been compared to Mardi Gras, marking the start of Lent for Orthodox Christians. People in costumes march on Moscow's Manezhnaya Square during the Maslenitsa festival ...

Kremlin spies acquiring network of sites designed to launch sabotage campaigns Adrian Blomfield is a Senior Foreign Correspondent at The Telegraph, covering defence, politics and conflict across the ...

Conservative clerics are meeting in Nigeria to choose a rival to the first female Archbishop of Canterbury.