Here are some of the most compelling photographs from the second week of 2025 from around RFE/RL's region. For more photo ...

Aurora is the home of two Orthodox Christian Churches that will gather this weekend for a holy occasion. In honor of the Holy ...

The Orthodox Christian community in Reading has held a ritual blessing of the River Thames in one of the first major ...

By Stephen Smot On the twelfth day of Christmas, a truelove gave her beloved a gift. Whatever it was, she presented it on Jan ...

The Feast of the Holy Epiphany was celebrated with great "pomp and splendor" at the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul on ...

As thousands of visitors from around the world poured into Tarpon Springs for Epiphany, it's important to recognize the history that comes with the celebration.

This was Boillot's second year of diving. While he says he was nowhere close to the cross at that time, things turned out ...

Epiphany, a public holiday in Greece, commemorates Jesus Christ's baptism and the revelation of the Holy Trinity. The ...

Christmas is celebrated by the Russian, Georgian, Jerusalemite, Polish and Serbian Orthodox churches, the Athos monasteries in Greece, as well as the Eastern Catholic Church and the Old Believers ...

Every Jan. 6 the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral celebrates the baptism of Jesus Christ. Here’s what to know.

A long-standing tradition in the Greek Orthodox community, the Epiphany celebration, took place Monday in Tarpon Springs.

As the Greek Orthodox community in Turkey marks Epiphany, men take a plunge into the frigid waters of Golden Horn, the ...