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

The "Baptism of Christ" is a well-known ceremony in the Orthodox Church that involves bathing in an ice hole, usually cut into a river. According to local beliefs, this ritualistic bath washes ...

Theophany commemorates the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River, the wedding at Cana and the visit of the Magi. The Orthodox church celebrates the blessings of water during Theophany.” ...

Immigration helped fuel the growth of America’s Orthodox churches more than a century ago. Now, it’s conversions from other ...

On January 19 (January 6, old style), the Orthodox Church commemorates the event described in all four Gospels of Matthew, Luke, John and Mark — the baptism of Jesus Christ in the waters of the ...

“It’s the baptism of our Lord on Jan 6. We bless the waters, homes and people in the homes,” the Rev. Thomas Constantine of St. George Greek Orthodox Church in New Castle, Pa., sai ...

is an annual event for St. Michael’s Antiochian Orthodox Christian Church. It commemorates the Theophany, or the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River. The celebration of the Feast of Theophany ...

Greece’s mobilization to strengthen the churches of the Diaspora by appointing a few hundred priests comes at a time when the ‘tug-of-war’ between Moscow and the Ecumenical Patriarchate over the ...

On this site, we are coexisting with Christian communities: Russian Orthodox ... The same will happen at the Baptism site; that is particularly symbolic. The Church is full of images that evoke ...