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 ...
For one religious single woman, unmarried motherhood is a gift. 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 ...
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 more than 15 years. "This is our place of healing. It's so wonderful to ...
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 ...
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 ...
SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — Numerous members of an Orthodox synagogue are among those missing after the collapse of a seaside condominium tower in Surfside, Florida. The town is home to a large Jewish ...
The Rev. Nicholas Jonas says he was in disbelief when he saw tears streaming down the face of a painting of Mary holding the child Jesus in his chapel. “When these things happen, I feel like a little ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.” ...
CHICAGO, Illinois -- Worshipers at a historic church prayed for a Christmas miracle, and Friday morning, it appears to have happened. Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church was supposed to be shut down ...