Giant noses, peyos and booze are props in the Christmas-season plays called verteps, hosted and attended by church officials ...

Archbishop Alexei, the head of the Russian Orthodox Diocese of Sitka and Alaska, personally presented ornate certificates of ...

Puri (Odisha), July 12, 2026 (ANI): Ahead of the annual Rath Yatra in Puri, a Russian devotee shared a message of peace and ...

Moscow (AsiaNews) – Nearly eight years after its founding, the Russian Patriarchal Exarchate of South-East Asia has become a diverse ecclesiastical structure. In an interview with TASS, Metropolitan ...

For more than 20 years, Father Aleksei Uminsky served as the rector of a church in a quiet corner of central Moscow. His dismissal and defrocking took about 10 days. On January 4, 2024, three days ...

Metropolitan Shio Mujiri has been elected as the new head of the Georgian Orthodox Church, a position that carries not just religious authority but outsized political influence in a nation where the ...

Nearly 90% of the world’s Christians celebrated the most important holiday in their faith last Sunday, but for those in the Eastern Orthodox tradition — including about 20,000 in the Baltimore area — ...

Escalating tensions between the Armenian government and senior figures within the Armenian Apostolic Church are more than a domestic institutional dispute. The ongoing confrontation demonstrates ...

(RNS) — The alleged pipeline is a sign that the Russian state is leveraging its national church’s expansion into Africa. NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — At a memorial ceremony in central Kenya in early ...

In the occupied city of Mariupol, many Catholic churches are “completely destroyed,” according to Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk. This is not unique to Mariupol. According to the Archbishop, the ...

A trio of House Republicans welcomed an Orthodox Christian delegation that accused Ukraine of religious persecution to Capitol Hill this week. Reps. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) Eli Crane (R-Ariz.) and ...

The Rev. Kathryn Adams of Canfield, right, poses with her daughter, Sarah Emerick-Craig, outside Christ the Savior Holy Spirit Orthodox Church in Norwood, where Sarah attends. After serving as an ...