Emil Charles Hoyt, age 100, passed peacefully on Sunday February 9, 2025 after a short illness. Known as Emil to his church community and “Chuck” to his larger local community, Chuck was a loving, ...

The Bronx, like its Jewish community, didn’t disappear, but became something new, first for the worse, then for the better.

The Lent season – which is a 40-day period of prayer and fasting leading up to Easter – starts on Ash Wednesday and ends on ...

Easter this year will be in late April, on Sunday, April 20. Easter Sunday sometimes falls in late April, because the holiday ...

Members of St. Andrew Orthodox Church of Lyndora braved cold winds and icy roads Sunday, Feb. 9, to witness the annual ...

Orthodox priests sing and pray during a mass for the 'sanctification of honey' around honey jars with candles arranged in ...

Orthodox priests sing and pray during a mass for the 'sanctification of honey' around honey jars with candles arranged in cross-shape, at the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin church in ...

A member of Kasselia's congregation, 29-year-old Salim Iskef, was among those murdered in Orebro on Tuesday in Sweden's first school shooting and the worst mass shooting in the country's history. The ...

Ash Wednesday is the first day of the season of Lent that leads up to Good Friday and Easter. What to know about the day.

Easter is fast approaching. Here's a look at why the date of Easter changes every year and what else to know about the ...

Dozens of Orthodox faithful attended today the celebration of a ceremony of consecration and raising of the cross in the bell tower under construction of the Orthodox temple of the Holy Righteous ...