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Syros is one of the few Greek islands that are active all year round, making it a good choice if full-time island life is one of your dreams.

The Ukrainian parliament has adopted a law that will change the dates of public holidays in Ukraine, Golos MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak reported on Telegram.

I was the first to depart because I actively participated in the Syrian uprising of 2011. At the age of 19, I was arrested, and upon my release, the fear of repeating the harsh experience of imprisonment made it impossible for me to continue living in Syria.

A top priest is in hiding following at a secret deal for part of the Old City's Armenian Quarter.

Priest Ioann Burdin was reportedly forced to relinquish his role as a parish priest and fined 35,000 rubles [$360] for the incident.

The Georgian Orthodox Church is the most influential conservative force in the country -- anti-gay, anti-drug, and seemingly equivocating on the Ukraine war. The church often finds itself in lockstep with Georgia's ruling party. 

One generation of Soviet refugees is welcoming another.

WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Biden administration said a visit to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount by Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s far-right national security minister, was “provocative” and cautioned against changes at the contested

HOUSTON (OSV News) -- Entering a cavelike entrance, visitors at the National Museum of Funeral History in Houston confront a life-size statue lying in the tomb, a replica of the mans body image from the Shroud of Turin. Sculpted by Italian artist Luigi Enzo Mattei, the body shows some of the suffering endured but in a subdued manner. The dark, bronze-colored resin statue highlights a gaping hole in his side, in each of his wrists, his feet and other wounds. Across on a wall of the compact spac

The Russian president has handed the most precious icon of Russian antiquity, ‘The Trinity,’ to the Orthodox Church against the advice of restorers and art experts