VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis and the Coptic Orthodox pope, Tawadros II, delivered a joint blessing Wednesday from St. Peter’s Square in a significant ecumenical gesture to commemorate the ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...