The Rise of the Eastern Orthodox Church The Eastern Orthodox Church, which emerged from the Byzantine Empire, continued many of these anti-Jewish policies. Byzantine laws restricted Jewish ...

When it comes to Roman Emperors and their fate, a big mystery appears that has baffled historians and archaeologists alike for centuries.

The fact that Jerusalem, Bethlehem and other holy Christian locations were “in the hands of infidels” was a major point of concern to both the Roman catholic Church and the Greek Orthodox ...

Without organized traditional religion, Americans are inclined to fill the void with something far worse than “love thy neighbor.” ...

Gaza was once a crossroads of the ancient civilisations of the Nile and the Levant. The coastal strip was a trading and ...

Public Domain The position of women in Byzantine society is not easy to assess considering ... She wrote fifty extant hymns, many of which are still used in Orthodox church services today. Zoe ...

a senior lecturer in theology at Liverpool Hope University and member of Ukraine's Byzantine-rite Catholic Church, speaking to Reuters in a 2022 interview. “More people want to speak out in Russia but ...

The Seventh Ecumenical Council dealt predominantly with the controversy regarding icons and their place in Orthodox worship ... once more shaken the foundations of both Church and State in the ...

This course examines the art and architecture of the Byzantine empire from its sources in Late Antique Rome ... We will pay particular attention to the role of art in the Easter Liturgy of the ...

Built to be a 'New Jerusalem', the town of Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is revered by the country's Orthodox Christians ... Built by the Byzantine emperor Justinian at the height of the Byzantine ...