A Ukrainian delegation to the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington will make the case that Russia threatens the religious ...

Immigration helped fuel the growth of America’s Orthodox churches more than a century ago. Now, it’s conversions from other Christian traditions fueling the growth of Holy Theophany Church in ...

The Dicastery for the Eastern Churches has prepared a pastoral guide ... to or built for Eastern Catholics and also for Eastern Orthodox,” he said. As a journalist, Victoria Cardiel has ...

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 ...

Although the particular churches possess their own hierarchy, differ in liturgical ... shepherd of the rites of the West and the East. The eastern rites which have a separate code of canon law ...

In Greece, Orthodox Easter is celebrated with an entire week of festivities – aptly titled ... Preparations for the jovial dinner begin early in the morning with the cooking of the maghiritsa – a type ...

A young transgender man is suing an Orthodox monk from Greece's monastic community of Mount Athos (Agion Oros) following the monk's public remarks against him. According to reports from Greek ...

Greece’s mobilization to strengthen the churches of the Diaspora by appointing a few hundred priests comes at a time when the ‘tug-of-war’ between Moscow and the Ecumenical Patriarchate over the ...

Therefore, they could not be mistaken for pagan worshipers. Not all church buildings face east but some still hold to a mandate toward eastern orientation. Many Eastern Orthodox churches are built to ...

The opening of 600 positions for Greek Orthodox priests in the diaspora ... instead of raising the issue of recognising the Ukrainian Church’s autocephaly, said that the granting of Autocephaly is the ...

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew emphasized that the granting of autocephaly to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine is a fait accompli and cannot be reversed by propaganda or war. According to Ecumenical ...

On Friday, the Greek Orthodox Church called for an emergency meeting to discuss a major reform to be launched. The move comes after the Church was rocked by overwhelming scandals on sex and finance ...