ATHENS (Reuters) - Roman Catholics in mainly Orthodox Greece are preparing excitedly for a visit by Pope Francis that they hope will help bring Eastern and Western Christianity closer together.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- As Greece battles hundreds of fires across the country, the Greek Orthodox Church in our area has launched a campaign to help those who have lost everything. There's ...

(RNS) — The Greek Orthodox Church opposition to legalizing marriage for anyone but traditional heterosexual couples is testing the church's influence over Greek life. ISTANBUL (RNS) — At the World ...

Greece this week legalized same-sex marriage at the national level, becoming the first officially Orthodox Christian country to do so. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on social media on ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s center-right government is speeding up its timetable to legalize same-sex marriage despite growing opposition from the powerful Orthodox Church. Government officials ...

THE Eastern question has been simplified by the almost complete exclusion of the Turks from the Balkan peninsula, but the organization of the Orthodox Eastern Church has been complicated. Before the ...

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece and its powerful Orthodox Church tentatively agreed on Tuesday to remove some 10,000 priests and auxiliary staff from the state payroll, in a deal that could pave the way for ...

An extraordinary meeting of the leadership of the Church of Greece decided on October 12 to recognize the autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), making it the first of the Eastern Orthodox ...

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