Olga Michael, a Yup'ik woman from a remote Alaska Native village, has been declared the first female Orthodox saint from North America, honoured for her compassion, humility, and lifelong service to ...

St. Olga, a Yup'ik woman who died in 1979 at age 63, was a midwife, a mother of 13 and the wife of an Orthodox Christian ...

The first female Orthodox saint in North America was an Indigenous woman who spent her entire life with her Yup'ik family and ...

Now, there are three Greek Orthodox parishes in the St. Louis metro region: St. Nicholas in St. Louis, Assumption in Town and Country and Saints Constantine and Helen in Swansea.

WEIRTON, W.Va. — All Saints Greek Orthodox Church in Weirton opened its doors once again for its monthly free meal, offering lamb, roasted potatoes, salad, and ...

Clinging to a Greek cliff, this monastery welcomes people from around the world. No women allowed The monastery is one of 20 in the autonomous all-male monastic community of Mount Athos, known in ...

Traditional Greek music and dance, food, pastries, church tours and more. Waterford Canal Festival 2025, 1 Tugboat Alley, Waterford. Friday-Sunday. 518-371-7748 or waterfordcanalfestival.com .

The monastery welcomes anyone who would like to visit — provided they are male. In a more than 1,000-year-old tradition, women are banned from the entire peninsula, which is deemed the Virgin Mary’s ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — . The peninsula in northern Greece is no stranger to non-Greeks: of the 20 monasteries, one is Russian, one is Bulgarian and one is Serbian, and the presence of monks ...

Saints Constantine & Helen Greek Orthodox Cathedral also is having a raffle for $20,000. For more information, call 219-769-2481, visit ssconstantineandhelen.org or find Saints Constantine & Helen ...

Tens of thousands of Greek Australians filed churches across the country this Good Friday to observe the solemn procession of the Epitaphios, one of the most sacred traditions of Orthodox Holy Week.