The Cyprus Orthodox church has reiterated that it will not perform funeral rites for individuals who choose cremation after death, following an announcement about the establishment of the first ...

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Chrysostomos II, the leader of Cyprus’ Orthodox Church, was laid to rest Saturday with a ceremony that reflected centuries of ecclesiastical tradition, eulogized as his ...

A court in Cyprus on Thursday gave a former bishop in the Greek Orthodox Church to a 12-month suspended sentence after he was found guilty of indecently assaulting a 16-year-old girl 42 years ago.

"The people of Cyprus mourn the loss of Archbishop Chrysostomos II," President Nicos Anastasiades tweeted. "His reforming work for Orthodox Christianity, the Church and his action for the ...

A 500-year-old Orthodox icon that was looted from a church in the breakaway north of ethnically divided Cyprus has been returned to the island. The icon of the Enthroned Christ, which Cyprus’s ...