VATICAN CITY (AP) — Tawadros, the Coptic Orthodox patriarch of Alexandria, Egypt, joined Francis on the stage for the entirety of Francis’ weekly general audience. VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope ...

Russian Patriarch Kirill on August 23 enforced the decision to defrock Orthodox priest Andrei Kudrin over his prayers for reconciliation between Russians and Ukrainians. Orthodox priests across ...

On Feb. 1, the Georgia House of Representatives made ... Esther Panitch introduced Rabbi Miriam Udel, a female Orthodox rabbi, to lead the opening prayer. Udel’s husband, Adam Zachary Newton ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Tens of thousands of people gathered at the holiest Jewish prayer site in Jerusalem on Tuesday for the traditional priestly blessing prayer. Today in History: June 2 ...

“Our bishop, Alexei — from everything we know and everything we’ve researched — is the first Orthodox bishop to have ever stayed in the Bishop’s House,” Gray said. “It was just an ...

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on his fellow Ukrainians on Orthodox Easter on Sunday to ... Zelenskyy, who is Jewish, called for prayers first for all the soldiers who will be celebrating ...

The head of the Russian Orthodox Church blessed Moscow on Friday to ward off the coronavirus, circling the city in a motorcade with a holy icon and reciting prayers. The patriarch's van with ...