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

The fall of Constantinople, on May 29,1453 was the final phase of the Byzantine-Ottoman Wars and the darkest page in Greek ...

COMMENTARY: The solemn sign of reverence and humility links Catholics with their Eastern Orthodox brethren by tapping into spiritual medicine promoted by Pope Leo XIV.

While beheadings grab headlines, poverty and cultural friction push emigration to the West—where the welcome is not always ...

On that cold, quiet morning of May 29, 1453, the jewel of the Eastern Roman Empire, girded by titanic Theodosian walls and the Bosphorus Strait, a bastion of Christianity in the East for more than a t ...

Baruch Herzfeld, the co-founder of PopWheels, studies Talmud to steel himself for dealing with city bureaucracy.

Iconyx loudspeakers overcome acoustical challenges for a transcendent worship experience.

Project integrator Spinnaker selected the Iconyx Gen5 Series IC24 column array to fix poor audio quality causing multiple ...

For about the past 10 years, the Archives Committee has set up shop during the Greek Festival to sell icons — mostly ...

Clinging almost impossibly to a sheer cliff in northern Greece, the Monastery of Simonos Petra, also known as Simonopetra — or Simon’s Rock — transcends country-based branches of the Christian faith, ...

Clinging almost impossibly to a sheer cliff in northern Greece, the Monastery of Simonos Petra, also known as Simonopetra — ...

While only Orthodox men can join the brotherhood, male visitors of other faiths are welcome. Its abbot, Archimandrite Eliseos, says the monastery reflects a centuries-old ecumenical spirit rooted in ...