The beards of Orthodox priests are some of their most striking attributes, marking them as different from other Western ...

DUBASARI VECHI, Moldova -- Sitting in the darkened nave of the church where he has led prayers and provided spiritual support for 19 years, a silver crucifix pendant standing out against his black ...

High in the Hayward Hills, Ukraina marks the farm and grave of Ukrainian dissident priest Agapius Honcharenko, who fled Russian authorities and settled here with his wife, Albina.

Stephen Hubbard was a wanderer. But when he moved to Ukraine, the war brought arrest, torture and imprisonment. He turns 73 this week. By Kim Barker and Nataliya Vasilyeva The village parishioners’ ...

A Russian Orthodox priest in Kazakhstan, defrocked last summer after speaking out against the invasion of Ukraine, has launched a longshot bid to establish an autocephalous Orthodox church of ...

The new Center for Interfaith Projects in Fargo is kicking off its first event with a good one: an atheist professor debates an Eastern Orthodox priest. It's at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Fargo Public ...

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 ...

Pope Francis met Friday with a delegation of priests and monks from Oriental Orthodox Churches at the Vatican. “Unity is not simply an end in itself, but is closely tied to the fruitfulness of the ...

The St. John Chrysostom Retreat is free, but reservations are required. CANTON − The Very Rev. Charles Powell took an unusual path to becoming a priest and pastor of an Orthodox church. Powell was a ...

SOFIA, BulgariaSOFIA, Bulgaria — Thousands of Orthodox Christians from across Bulgaria flocked to Sofia’s main Alexander Nevski Cathedral on Friday to pay their respects to their late spiritual leader ...

In Istanbul, Pope Leo XIV will meet the patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church to show amity between two of the world’s largest Christian groups. By Ben Hubbard and Motoko Rich Stephen Hubbard was a ...