In a gesture of unity, Orthodox priests have been encouraged to shave their beards, as a symbolic act of brotherhood with ...

Dozens of people gathered in Washington City Saturday morning for a liturgical service to mark the groundbreaking of the St. George Orthodox Christian Church's new building.

Easter on April Fools' Day is a thing. One of the most important holidays in Christianity, here's when the two coincided ...

In times of peace or war, church bells sound in Fassuta every day, giving some residents a sense of hope while others worry ...

A new study reveals how the Greek Revolution reshaped the Ottoman Empire's governance and deepened surveillance of non-Muslim ...

Rights groups, such as the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), have reported that recent killings on the coast were ...

In 1994 he returned to Albania and became a priest and lectured at the church ... Joan is the sixth head of the Albanian Orthodox Church. According to the 2023 census, Orthodox Christians in Albania ...

Father Gabriel Romanelli told Vatican News the bombings occurred just 300 or 400 meters (about 985 to 1,300 feet) from the ...

The Russian Orthodox Church strongly backs the war in Ukraine and has punished dozens of priests who have defied its official ...

Syria's Christians are a minority in flux. There are concerns about instability and insecurity in the country alongside ...

THE senior Russian Orthodox bishop who allegedly the target of a murder plot by two ethnic Ukrainian laymen has asked to meet ...