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by bcadmin | Oct 21, 2022 | Associated Press, Church History, Church in Europe, Greece, Greek Orthodox, News, Orthodox Church | 0 |
Deep inside a medieval fortified monastery on Mount Athos, researchers are for the first time tapping a virtually unknown treasure — thousands of Ottoman-era manuscripts that include the oldest of their kind in the world.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 30, 2022 | Associated Press, Bible, Church History, Church in Europe, Greece, Museum of the Bible, News | 0 |
U.S. museum has returned a valuable 1,000-year-old Christian manuscript to a monastery in northern Greece it was looted from by Bulgarian forces more than a century ago together with hundreds of other documents and artifacts
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 10, 2022 | Church in Europe, Documentary, Greece, lead, Monasteries, Monks, Movies, News, Orthodox Church, Ukraine | 0 |
Ukrainian film maker Alexandr Plyska made a unique documentary about the monks living on Mount Athos, a peninsula in northeastern Greece.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 9, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, Cloistered orders, Greece, News, religious women | 0 |
Inside this convent on one of the trendiest islands in Greece, a predominantly Christian Orthodox country, 13 cloistered Catholic nuns devote their lives to praying for those visitors and for the world.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 25, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, COVID restrictions, Easter, Greece, Greek Orthodox, News | 0 |
For the first time in three years, Greeks were able to celebrate Orthodox Easter without the restrictions made necessary by the coronavirus pandemic.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 20, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, COVID-19, Easter, Greece, Greek Orthodox, News | 0 |
Inside Greece’s Orthodox churches, candles are a symbol of faith and simplicity, slender and traditionally made of beeswax, and placed in large candleholders filled with sand.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 16, 2022 | Gonzague Browaeys, Greece, Israel, Motorcycles, News, Pilgrimage, Pilgrimage of faith, Theophile Robin, U.S. & World News | 0 |
Childhood friends Gonzague Browaeys and Theophile Robin had not even considered taking a pilgrimage of faith when they began planning their end-of-university studies trip late last year.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 10, 2022 | anti-Christian violence, Arson, Associated Press, Church in Europe, Greece, Greek Orthodox, News | 0 |
A Greek prosecutor on Wednesday brought terrorism charges against three people accused of participation in an arson attack by an extremist anarchist group against an Orthodox Christian religious society in the northern city of Thessaloniki.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 16, 2021 | Catholic News Service, Greece, Jesuits, lead, News, Pope Francis, Vatican | 0 |
The decrease of vocations to religious life, including in the Society of Jesus, is a lesson in humility and a reminder that a calling to religious life depends on God, Pope Francis told Jesuits in Greece.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 7, 2021 | Cardinal Michael Czerny, Catholic News Service, Cyprus, Greece, immigrants and refugees, Lesbos, News, Pope Francis, Pope in Greece & Cyprus, Vatican | 0 |
With passion in Cyprus and reason in Greece, Pope Francis continued to articulate and adjust his teaching on migration.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 6, 2021 | Athens, God the Almighty, Greece, Mass, Mass in Athens, News, U.S. & World News | 0 |
God the Almighty almost always chooses the least mighty people and the most desolate places to reveal the power of his love, Pope Francis said.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 6, 2021 | Breaking News, Catholic Youth, Church in Europe, Greece, lead, News, Papal Trips, Pope Francis, Pope in Greece & Cyprus | 0 |
On his last day #PopeFrancisinGreece met with young people, telling them to get off social media and invest in real relationships and to avoid the “siren calls” of passing fads.
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