St. Olga of Kwethluk, Matushka of All Alaska,” as she is officially known, was canonized on June 19 as the first female Orthodox saint from North America.

A large banner above the front main doors of Ss. Peter and Paul Byzantine Catholic Church reads “I am the vine, you are ...

St. Olga, a Yup'ik woman who died in 1979 at age 63, was a midwife, a mother of 13 and the wife of an Orthodox Christian ...

The first female Orthodox saint in North America was an Indigenous woman who spent her entire life with her Yup'ik family and ...

Father Moses McPherson describes himself on Instagram as a 220 pound "Orthodox priest, husband, father" who can lift a total of 1,664 pounds in the squat, bench and deadlift. (He claims to hold ...

Holy Week will culminate for most Eastern Orthodox churches, including Greek, Macedonian and Russian, with the celebration of late night services starting late Saturday and ending April 12.

Valerian Dunin-Barkovsky now serves as a priest at the Orthodox parish of St. Nicholas in Düsseldorf Image: privat IT specialist priest and human rights activist Like dozens of other anti-war ...

On May 2, the Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and all of Africa ordained in Zimbabwe the first deaconess of any patriarchate in the global Eastern Orthodox Church, marking the culmination of years ...

(RNS) — On Thursday (May 2), the Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and all of Africa ordained in Zimbabwe the first deaconess of any patriarchate in the global Eastern Orthodox Church, marking ...

Eastern Orthodox Easter will be celebrated on May 5th this year. Easter is called Pascha in the Orthodox Church. Pascha is the Greek word for Passover.

For many Christians, Easter was celebrated this year on March 31. But for Eastern Orthodox Christians, the celebration of Jesus Christ's Resurrection occurs more than a month later, on May 5.

Archpriest John Whiteford of St. Jonah Orthodox Church in Spring, Texas, describes "Clean Monday" and the customs of Orthodox Christianity during the season of Lent leading up to Easter.