St Thomas Day was originally celebrated on December 21 as it was traditionally considered the date of his death.

But as young people raised in the Maronite and other Eastern rite Catholic and Orthodox churches leave the war-torn country ...

One in seven Jews worldwide are strictly Orthodox, or Haredi. It's a population of roughly 2 million out of 15 million Jews, ...

U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom report found continued “intense persecution” of Ukrainian Orthodox, ...

Houston’s Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral, one of the largest Greek Orthodox communities in the nation, expects to cover each of its walls with colorful Byzantine iconography by the year 2027, ...

Russia continued to persecute pastors and shutter churches within its borders and in territories it occupies in Ukraine, the ...

An Orthodox church in Nazareth has been attacked and vandalised by a group calling themselves the "Soldiers of God". The ...

The Supreme Court tends to save its blockbuster orders for the last day of the term – and 2025 was no exception. Among the ...

If we imagine religion as a technology, argues Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith, we can better see the cause of its ...

Pope Leo XIV received members of a delegation from the Eastern Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarchate in a June 28 audience.

This year marks the 1700th anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea (325)! The word ecumenical comes from the Greek oikoumene (οἰκουμένη), which translates as “the whole inhabited ...

June 29th is one of the most significant days in the Orthodox Church’s calendar, as it commemorates the memory of the Holy ...