A second 2014 calendar featuring full-color photographs of gay Orthodox men posing as priests or their tanned, tattooed and totally naked admirers is intended to support gay marriage, de Iona said.

But the Russian Orthodox Church, the largest communion in Eastern Orthodoxy, has stayed on the old calendar, observing Christmas on Jan. 7 on the new calendar, as have Serbian, Georgian and some ...

Christmas Day is observed by many Orthodox Christians on January 7 if their church uses the Julian, not the Gregorian, calendar. The Julian calendar is named after Roman emperor Julius Caesar.

The Priest and Cat calendar released earlier this month by photographer Anna Galperina and editor Ksenia Luchenko shows 12 Orthodox priests at their homes posing with their cats.

MOSCOW -- A group of Christian enthusiasts has released a calendar showing an unexpected face of the Russian Orthodox Church: cat-loving priests. The Priest and Cat calendar released earlier this ...

The Dec. 12 Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe was added to the Byzantine Catholic calendar in 1999, one of only four feasts added in the past 20 years.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The permanent collection of Purdue University Galleries is now home to one of the largest private Orthodox Christian icon collections in the country, and an exhibition of these ...

KYIV, Ukraine — Willow branches in hand, Ukrainians marked Palm Sunday on the Orthodox calendar at the country’s most revered Orthodox site, which has been at the heart of a religious dispute ...

This year, the orthodox calendar follows the Roman Catholic calendar, and liturgy rituals and services recalling the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus are scheduled every day during Holy Week.