Despite intensive American efforts to broker a ceasefire and staggering battlefield casualties, Russia’s full-scale invasion ...

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The clearest memory of my first visit to Dublin, nearly 40 years ago, is my initial sight of Merrion Square. It is – whatever ...

In England, interest in orthodoxy was enhanced by Charles ... And last year I visited the remarkable new icon museum of the Georgian Orthodox Church in Svaneti, the province buried deep in the heart ...

But the Russian Orthodox Church, the largest communion in Eastern Orthodoxy, has kept to the old calendar, observing Christmas on January 7. Even Serbian, Georgian and some other Orthodox Church ...

He added, however, that the Church did favour Georgia’s orientation towards the EU, “supports it and strives for it”. The Patriarchate of the Georgian Orthodox Church, to which most ...

Mtskheta was once a key Silk Road trading hub and a holy capital city (Credit: Soumya Gayatri) We begin in the historic city of Mtskheta, the seat of the Georgian Orthodox Church since the 4th ...

It is not shy to even try to subjugate the Georgian Orthodox Church, which enjoys authority in society. Meanwhile, Georgians themselves are taking part in mass protests, advocating for preservation of ...

The vital allies of Georgia are the UK, U.S., and Ukraine ... we can’t help but bring up the long-lasting ties of Tamaz Somkhishvili to the Georgian Orthodox Church. The businessman enjoys a ...

She says she considered converting to the Georgian Orthodox Church as a student in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, where that faith wields great influence. But her doubts were dispelled as she ...

“The rest of the patriarchates, like the Georgian and the Romanian ones, have not taken any formal step toward the recognition of the (Orthodox) Church of Ukraine. They have abstained." As a ...

“The rest of the patriarchates, like the Georgian and the Romanian ones, have not taken any formal step toward the recognition of the (Orthodox) Church of Ukraine. They have abstained." As a ...