2 A man plunges in icy water celebrating the Orthodox Epiphany ... station roof in the Serbian city. 9 A person stands at a sight-seeing point covered in fresh snow on Gellert Hill in Budapest ...

For the most part, it is Christians in the Serbian Orthodox Church who celebrate Christmas in Kosovo ... Paragliding is also a major attraction here, and in the winter, skiing and snow-walking is ...

The sacred performance signals a deepening of Catholic-Orthodox dialogue and a potential step toward a papal visit to Serbia.

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s Archbishop Anastasios, who revived the country’s Orthodox Church after the fall of the communist regime in 1990, has died, the church said on Saturday.

The head of the Albanian Orthodox Church, who was airlifted to Athens due to complications from a virus earlier this month, has died aged 95, the hospital said Saturday. Archbishop Anastasios ...

But, in Serbia's Orthodox Christian community, the feast of the Epiphany is marked every year by the traditional "swim for the Holy Cross." Participants swim across a river or lake to a Holy Cross.

Orthodox Christians in Russia marked the feast day of Epiphany on Sunday with a traditional dip into icy water even as local emergencies issued weather warnings. Local media showed people bathing ...

Serbia's Prime Minister Miloš Vučević has resigned following protests triggered by the deadly collapse of a canopy in November.

Within months of opening in July 1974, Church Street became one of the state’s top tourist destinations. In its heyday, nearly every detail of the lavish complex was teased from Snow’s own fer ...

Vladimir Putin accused Jews of attacking the Russian Orthodox Church and suggested that they lacked family and “roots,” the latest antisemitic statement from the Russian leader since his 2022 ...