From outside the doors of Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral, the baritone voice of John Michael Boyer can be heard. Inside the church, Boyer is standing just to the right of the church’s icon ...

NEW YORK — On the feast of the Transfiguration in 1994, then-seminarian Elias Rafaj made the journey to visit the monastic village of Ormylia in Greece, home to the largest women’s monastery in the ...

Mt Athos is a mountain rising about 2000 metres above sea level and it's also a peninsula jutting 50 kms into the blue Aegean Sea in north-eastern Greece. But most importantly Mt Athos is a ...

Bogotá (AsiaNews/Agencies) – Byzantine chant (see video below) is an ancient tradition of liturgical music, and now one of the 42 cultural traditions and practices, 15 from Asia, added to the ...

Cappella Romana has a long-standing interest in the Byzantine Empire -- its cultural context and long arm of influence after the Turkish conquest in 1453. Indeed, one purpose of the 11-year-old vocal ...

As a living art over 2000 years old, the Byzantine chart is a significant cultural tradition and music system belonging to the musical traditions originating in the Byzantine Empire. Focused on ...

With the intention of preserving Byzantine spiritual wisdom, Greek monk Nicodemus devoted his life to writing the massive ...

POCATELLO — Ardently involved with the Gate City’s Greek Orthodox Church, Danny Thiros, the late husband of Idaho State University Athletic Director Pauline Thiros, longed for the historic church ...