The Orthodox delegation visiting the Vatican was made up of 18 priests and monks from Egypt, Armenia, Lebanon, Syria, India, Ethiopia, and Eritrea. Pope Francis meets with a delegation of priests and ...

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 ...

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’ ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dozens of dissenting Orthodox priests within Russia have already faced censure ... s “devotion to peacemaking and condemning of Russian warmongering propaganda.” Eastern Orthodoxy, the world’s ...

The first full day of Lent for churches using the "old calendar" to calculate the date of Easter is Monday, March 18. In the Eastern Christian tradition, this day is known as "Clean Monday" — and it ...

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian police searched the homes of Russian Orthodox priests and Russian Orthodox churches in several cities Monday, stepping up pressure as Kiev pushes for the creation of an ...

ATHENS (Reuters) -An elderly Greek Orthodox priest shouted "Pope, you are a heretic" as Pope Francis was entering the Orthodox Archbishopric in Athens on Saturday and was taken away by police, a ...