In 1453, the Ottomans seized Constantinople, ending the Byzantine Empire and the life of its last emperor, Constantine ...

Egypt has ordered the closure of the Monastery of Saint Catherine of Sinai, the world's oldest continuously functioning ...

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Egypt has ordered the closure of the world's oldest continuously functioning Christian monastery, much to the fury of ...

Jean-Arnault Dérens, historian and editor-in-chief of Le Courrier des Balkans, has just published Geopolitics of Orthodoxy: ...

Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral, the largest Orthodox church in the country, has some of the most impressive Byzantine-style icons in Houston. The gray stone cathedral with a gold dome sits ...

Iconyx loudspeakers overcome acoustical challenges for a transcendent worship experience.