Thousands of Russians celebrating the Orthodox Christian feast day of Epiphany, where worshippers bathe in the icy waters of frozen lakes and rivers, have been forced to cancel their traditional ...

A similar service was held at the main Greek Orthodox Church cathedral in Athens before the procession travelled to Tirana. The religious leaders and others inside the cathedral kissed Anastasios ...

The procession, locally known as Translacion, sees devotees carry across Manila a 400-year-old, life-size statue of Jesus Christ carrying a black wooden cross. Millions of Filipino Catholics join ...

Thousands of Albanians gathered in the capital to pay their last respects to Archbishop Anastasios, who revived the country’s Orthodox Christian Church after the fall of the country’s communist regime ...