It has taken place at the same time, in the same manner, and in the same place every single year for centuries. The Holy Fire is the most renowned miracle in the world of Eastern Orthodox Christianity ...

Divorced and childless at 23, each year for the next decade on Rosh HaShanah, Julie Yusupov would walk to her synagogue and, in hopes of one day becoming a mother, say a traditional prayer on the ...

Who doesn’t want to believe in miracles? Certainly the parishioners of a Greek Orthodox church in a southwest suburb of Chicago want to believe. For months, a painting of St. John the Baptist at ...

Part of this openness to miracles comes from the Hebrew understanding of the concept ‘duty calls’. In English this call ...

This appeared this week in an online Orthodox parish bulletin in a friend’s parish. She knows the people to whom this happened. It has to do with a Greek Orthodox saint Nektarios of Aegina. I’ve ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jan. 1—St. Innocent Orthodox Church in Rogue River lived the axiom of Corinthians 5:7: "We walk by faith and not by sight," for ...

HOMER GLEN, Ill. — An icon of John the Baptist at Assumption Greek Orthodox Church in Homer Glen, Ill., in suburban Chicago, exudes oil. People have been flowing to the church to see the icon and be ...

After Shabbat dinner, a guest asked to speak to Yaakov Smith in private before leaving. “That was an amazing act you performed for us tonight,” the man said, cryptically. “Take care of yourself.” ...

Parishioners of a Philadelphia Ukrainian Orthodox church say the four-alarm fire that destroyed millions of dollars in furniture and artifacts and left a gaping hole in the center of the historic ...

Fourteen-year-old Stephanie Vandenberg of Gilbert has always felt sorry for other Christians. "You don’t celebrate Easter at the right time," she has told those who wonder why her Easter, or Pascha, ...

SHEBOYGAN - Back in the late 1800s, the founders of St. Spyridon Greek Orthodox Church came to the area to take advantage of the opportunities on the Midwestern frontier. Many of them were single men ...

Numerous members of an Orthodox synagogue are among those missing after the collapse of a seaside condominium tower near Miami Friday 25 June 2021 20:39 BST Rabbi Sholom D. Lipskar, the founder of the ...