Most of John's relics were looted from Constantinople by crusaders in 1204 and taken to Rome, but some of his bones were returned to the Orthodox Church on 27 November 2004 by Pope John Paul II. Since ...

The Talmud purports to be the written version of the oral Torah that Pharisaic and later Orthodox Judaism believed was ...

First, is there actually a growing trend of young men looking to become Orthodox Christians? Second, is it correct to ...

The celebration on Jan. 25 marked the solemn conclusion of this year’s Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, which the Pope ...

Archbishop Anastasios, who revived the Orthodox Church of Albania after the fall of the communist regime in the country, has ...

The abbots and abbesses of 39 monasteries in Greece and Mount Athos have issued an open letter supporting the Ukrainian ...

Warm weather threatens Epiphany ice water plunges for Russia's Orthodox Christians - Thousands of Russians celebrating the ...

Orthodox Easter is usually at least a week later than Catholic ... It is named after the first Christian martyr, Stephen, who saw the risen Christ giving a “standing ovation” at the right hand of the ...

Vladimir Putin met the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, on Tuesday with gifts he asked the Patriarch to bless for troops fighting in Ukraine. The meeting at a Christmas ...

The first 50 ultra-Orthodox soldiers were drafted for regular ... and public pressure has risen, due to the manpower shortages caused by the long ongoing war. The 50 soldiers drafted on Sunday ...

The Israeli military has enlisted the first batch of about 50 recruits into its new ultra-Orthodox brigade after a controversial decision to end their decades-long exemption from service. By the ...

The head of the Albanian Orthodox Church, who was airlifted to a hospital in Athens due to complications from a virus, is in a critical condition, the Evangelismos hospital said Sunday.