A study shows that abstaining from animal products during religious Greek Orthodox Easter fasting provides health benefits.

Cecrops, Athens’ first king, banned bloody sacrifices and reformed worship with laws, morality, and symbolic offerings.

Fall from these structures, as monks often did during their perilous, devotion-proving construction, and you’d have many ...

According to The Old Farmer's Almanac, Easter is "always observed on a Sunday between March 22 and April 25" and falls on the first Sunday following the full moon that occurs after the spring equinox.

On the Greek island of Amorgos, nestled within a cliffside monastery seemingly untouched by time, Father Spyridon Denaxas ...

Greek sources portrayed the Achaemenid kings, as indulgent and ruthless—all but Cyrus II. Why was this enemy ruler the only ...

This year is not only the 1,700th anniversary of the first ecumenical council of the church, but also one of the years when Catholic and Orthodox Easter celebrations coincide — an occasion to reflect ...

The Conversation explores the origins of the long and interesting journey the Easter Bunny has taken from European prehistory ...

AMORGOS, Greece (AP) — For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas — or Father Spyridon, as he’s affectionately called — has ...

His Majesty King Abdullah II on Tuesday received Patriarch Youssef Absi, the Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch of Antioch and All the East. During the meeting attended by Their Royal Highnesses Crown ...

St Paul’s writings indicate what had become accepted knowledge about Christ’s life and faith, says Joan Taylor ...