Orthodox Christian churches have been growing in recent years, and young men have been driving the trend since the pandemic. The Post spoke to recent converts and religious leaders who say the ...

A branch of Ukraine’s Orthodox church has announced that it will allow its churches to celebrate Christmas on December 25, rather than January 7, as is traditional in Orthodox congregations.

ISTANBUL (RNS)—On Sunday, leaders of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church will gather in Sofia to decide on their new spiritual head — the Patriarch of All Bulgaria. The Bulgarian Church’s last ...

It notified the Ukrainian Orthodox Church that it was terminating its lease at the temple in March, and put forth the eviction notice on March 29, with the deadline set before Palm Sunday.

A Greek Orthodox church in the Gaza Strip which was sheltering hundreds of displaced Palestinians was hit overnight by an Israeli air strike, the Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem said, and ...

NPR's Michel Martin talks to attorney Lena Zezulin about growing calls for Russian Orthodox Church outposts abroad to break from the Moscow-based church and its support of the war in Ukraine.

Orthodox women are required to dress and act modestly, ... I’ve been to a home in Montreal of a woman who had a studio in the back of her home, ... field director at World Church Service.

Metropolitan Epifaniy, head of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, marking Orthodox Christmas in Kyiv, Ukraine, January 7, 2019. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko 2022-11-08T17:05:43Z ...

A defrocked Russian Orthodox priest in Kazakhstan says he'll build an autocephalous church that's not subordinate to the Moscow Patriarchate and Russian propaganda. Iakov Vorontsov, forced out ...

In Ukraine, the Orthodox Church has an independent national arm, which formally gained canonical status from the Eastern Orthodox Church in 2018, and an arm, to which Mr. Solkan belongs, that is ...

Religion has become a powerful tool for Russia in its war against Ukraine, with the Orthodox Church playing a prominent role in shaping Moscow’s narrative. According to Viktor Yelensky, Ukraine ...

A branch of Ukraine’s Orthodox church has announced that it will allow its churches to celebrate Christmas on December 25, rather than January 7, as is traditional in Orthodox congregations.