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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 534

Eastern Orthodox

A Russian-speaking expat celebrating Easter lights a candle at the Christian Orthodox Church in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, April 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Isabel Debre)
April 24, 2022, 9:17 pm
In far-off UAE, Russian and Ukrainian expats mark Easter in the shadow of war
Hundreds crowd Arabian Peninsula’s only Russian Orthodox Church, with the two nationalities’ usually harmonious celebrations now mired in unspoken tensions
By Isabel Debre
A pilgrim and her son are baptised at the Qaser al-Yahud Baptism Site in the Judean Desert on the border with the Jordan River on the Eastern Orthodox holiday of Epiphany on January 18, 2019. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)
January 18, 2019, 7:41 pm
Epiphany in the Jordan River
Thousands flock to the Judean Desert to commemorate the Eastern Orthodox feast day with a sunny, temperate winter baptism
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Ukrainian Orthodox believers light candles from the Holy Fire during Orthodox Easter celebrations in the Volodymyrskiy Monastery in Kiev, Ukraine, April 7, 2018. (AP Photo/ Evgeniy Maloletka)
April 8, 2018, 9:39 pm
Orthodox Christians observe Easter with candles, prayers
Russia’s Putin and Medvedev attend services at Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow
By AP
Greek Orthodox priests celebrating Easter at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)
December 6, 2017, 4:41 pm
Heads of Jerusalem churches deliver last-minute plea to Trump
13 Christian leaders warn of the ‘hatred, conflict, violence and suffering’ and ‘irreparable harm’ that a change in US policy on Jerusalem could create
By Sue Surkes
An Iraqi Christian woman, who fled the violence in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, attends a mass celebrating the coronation of the Virgin Mary, on May 31, 2015 in Arbil, the capital of the Kurdish autonomous region in northern Iraq. (AFP Photo/Safin Hamed)
From the WebMay 16, 2016, 3:20 am
Iraq’s ancient Christian population could be gone within 5 years in the face of IS
The Telegraph examines the exodus of minorities in a country stricken by sectarian violence and the recent rise of jihadist group
Christian Orthodox worshippers hold up candles lit from the 'Holy Fire' as thousands gather in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City, on April 30, 2016, during the Orthodox Easter ceremonies.(AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)
May 1, 2016, 2:10 am
Thousands of Eastern Orthodox pilgrims attend holy fire ceremony
Ancient ritual celebrating Jesus’ resurrection held at Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre
By AP
A Catholic pilgrim carries a wooden cross along the Via Dolorosa (Way of Suffering) in Jerusalem’s Old City during the Good Friday procession on March 25, 2016. (Gali Tibbon/AFP)
March 25, 2016, 4:52 pm
Thousands trace Jesus’s footsteps on Good Friday in Jerusalem
Procession of Catholics and Protestants passes along the Via Dolorosa in the Old City; Orthodox Christians mark Easter Sunday on May 1
By AFP
Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, center back, lights candles in the begging of an Easter service in Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow, Russia, April 12, 2015. (photo credit: AP/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)
April 12, 2015, 11:20 am
With candles, prayers, Orthodox Christians mark Easter
Celebrations come a week after those of Roman Catholics and Protestants, who follow the Gregorian calendar
By AP
A view of Gush Halav (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)
May 18, 2013, 3:31 pm
Gush Halav: Home to the Maronites
Despite 14 centuries of persecution, these Galilee-based Christian followers of a hermit named Mar Maroun have refused to abandon their faith. Sound familiar?
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
Greek Orthodox priests celebrating Easter at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)
May 8, 2013, 10:39 pm
US urges Israel to ensure freedom of worship
The PLO complains that security forces kept Christians from attending Easter Sunday rites
Iraqi Christians pray during Easter mass at Mar Youssif Chaldean Church in Baghdad on Sunday. The Chaldean Church is an Eastern Rite church affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church. (photo credit: AP Photo/ Karim Kadim)
April 1, 2013, 2:47 am
Isolated Mideast Christians celebrate Easter
As new pope pleads for peace, Holy Land’s Christian minority flocks to church for holiday services
By Diaa Hadid and Tia Goldenberg
Christian worshipers take part in the "Holy Fire" ceremony at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City during Easter, 2011 (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
April 14, 2012, 12:54 pm
Christian pilgrims gather in Jerusalem for ‘holy fire’ ritual
Thousands crowd into Church of the Holy Sepulcher to witness annual ceremony performed by Eastern Orthodox clerics
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