Eastern Orthodox Church

The Albanian council of Chimarra completed the demolition of the Orthodox church of St. Athanasius in the village of Drymades under the cover of the night. Around 4 am in the morning the Albanian Urban Police arrived at the remains of the church and ordered the excavators and bulldozers to finish off the job.

The olive and myrtle tree saplings planted by Fener Greek Patriarch Bartholomew and ?zmir Mayor Aziz Kocao?lu have become tourist attractions. 

Bartholomew and Kocao?lu planted the trees at the garden of the Greek Orthodox Church of Agios Voukolos in ?zmir on Feb. 6.

Roman Orthodox Christians look forward to the second coming but they also have another reason to rejoice – their annual calendar. It’s an annual event that features muscular male models – many of them priests – in devout positions.

The Holy Synod, the Greek Orthodox Church?s governing body, on Tuesday denounced yoga, saying it is ?incompatible? with the Christian faith.

A Greek Orthodox church's door was set ablaze in the evening of June 9 in the Kad?köy district on Istanbul's Anatolia side.

A door of the Hagia Triada Greek Orthodox Church was set on fire on June 9 by Muhammed ?imdi, 25, who reportedly suffers from a mental illness. The church is located on Nispetiye Street, a side street of Bahariye, Kad?köy's main thoroughfare.

Patriarch Daniel of the Romanian Orthodox Church received on Tuesday a delegation of the Bulgarian National Assembly, voicing on the occasion appreciation for the good relations of cooperation between the two neighboring nations.

For two days in a row, haredi yeshiva students blocked Greek Orthodox Christians from entering the compound that houses both the area believed to be King David’s tomb and the area where the last supper was purportedly held. On the first day of the protest, there were hundreds of haredi protestors, though the number had dropped to only twenty on the second day.

"Ban on zealot camp is up to prosecutor" - minister

BELGRADE -- Nebojsa Stefanovic said Monday that the police will ban "a zealot-ran youth camp" if the prosecutor's office establishes the existence of a criminal offense.

Bulgaria marks on Saturday the 1150th anniversary of its conversion to Christianity and the 1145th anniversary of the establishment of an autocephalous Bulgarian Orthodox Church.

The Bulgarian Orthodox Church also observes on Saturday the feast day of Saint Tsar Boris I the Baptiser, the medieval ruler, who converted Bulgaria to Christianity.

One year later, it is as almost as a déjà vu experience. Turkey is heading for elections, again.