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Ash Wednesday Fasting: Meat and Other Foods Forbidden During Lent

Farewell, Mardi Gras. Hello, Lent. For Catholics and some other Christians, today is Ash Wednesday, the start of the season of Lent. A period of penitence and contemplation, Lent is the 46-day period (40 days not including Sundays) leading up to Easter. One key component to observing Ash Wednesday is fasting, but the...

What Is Epiphany, and Who Is Celebrating It?

Today's is a holiday is known by many names: Little Christmas, the Feast of the Epiphany, Three Kings Day. While you may have already packed away your Christmas decorations, for many, the holidays are not quite over yet. Today officially marks the end of Christmastide. Different Christian denominations celebrate the...

Turkish Man on Trial for Plot to Kill Orthodox Christian Leader, Rabbis

ANKARA, Turkey -- A Turkish news agency says a court has released a man whom prosecutors accuse of plotting to murder Jewish rabbis and the Istanbul-based leader of the world's Orthodox Christians. The Anatolia agency says suspect Ismet Recber was freed pending the outcome of the trial following the first hearing...

Can Housing Keep Christians in Middle East?

JERUSALEM (Nov. 1) -- Only days after a special Vatican Synod on the Middle East ended a week of deliberation about the rapidly shrinking Christian communities in the Arab world and Israel, Christians faced a massacre in Baghdad and renewed troubles in Jerusalem. Fifty-eight people including a priest were reported dead...

Lost Treasures Return to Russia's Red Square

(Aug. 28) -- A ceremony on Moscow's Red Square today celebrated the restoration of two huge icons that graced two of the Kremlin's gateways for half a millennium before vanishing during the first decades of the atheist Soviet state. The icons of Christ and St. Nicholas, key symbols of Russia's national and spiritual...

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Church Of The Holy Sepulchre Comes Alive At Night In Jerusalem

After the last tourists leave the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem's Old City at nightfall, a little-known but centuries-old tradition unfolds at one of Christianity's holiest sites.

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Alex Pasternack: What the Sold-Out Ultra-Orthodox Anti-Internet Rally Was About

"What do you think this is about?" was the question that bounced back when I asked the same of Sruly, a smiling, bespectacled twenty-something Hasidic student and erstwhile packer and shipper from Williamsburg.

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The Greeks Of Turkey: Is It Too Late?

A century of oppression has nearly wiped out a religious minority group with historic ties to the region.

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Punk Band Arrest At Heart of Russian Orthodox Church Feud

The skinny dissident is thrown headfirst into a police van by camouflage-clad officers.

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06/02/12 Patriarch of Russia to pay official visit to Cyprus Source: Famagusta Gazette - Cyprus Patriarch Kirill Gundyaev of Moscow and all the Russians will pay an official four day visit to Cyprus at the invitation primate Archbishop Chrysostomos II of Nea Justiniana and All Cyprus.
06/02/12 Birth of a church Source: Arizona Daily Sun - Flagstaff AZ All the chairs and other items for the celebration of the Pentecost Liturgy for Sunday were set up the day before, said Father Patrick Mowrer, Catholic pastor of the San Francisco de Asis Parish.
06/02/12 Bulgaria Orthodox Christians Mark Cherry All Souls' Day Source: Novinite - Bulgaria Bulgarian Christian Orthodox honor Saturday the All Souls' Day before Pentecost or the so-called Cherry All Souls' Day. All Souls' Day is also known as the Feast of All Souls, Commemoration of all the Faithful Departed.
06/02/12 Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox organist retiring Source: The Toledo Blade When Chris Zervos was 8 years old, Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral paid for him to take six piano lessons.
06/01/12 Old First Church holds special service Source: NBC - 22 News WWLP SPRINGFIELD, Mass. Springfield community members came together for a special service at the Old First Church in Court Square to mark the June first tornado.

Background on eastern orthodoxy

The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially called the Orthodox Catholic Church and commonly referred to as the Orthodox Church, is the second largest Christian church in the world, with an estimated 300 million adherents mainly in the countries of Belarus, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Georgia, Greece, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Russia, Serbia, and Ukraine, all of which are majority Eastern Orthodox.

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