KOTTAYAM: In a clear indication that peace remains elusive among the warring Jacobite and Orthodox factions of the Malankara Church, the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (MOSC) on Tuesday ...

The Orthodox Church claimed this move violated the Church’s constitution and was aimed at gaining international recognition for the Jacobite faction. Published - May 20, 2025 08:06 pm IST.

The efforts to resolve the dispute within the Malankara Church have received a boost with three Oriental Orthodox Churches stepping in to facilitate peace negotiations. According to sources, the ...

The Orthodox Church has also raised questions about the legitimacy of the Universal Holy Synod of the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch. “The synod was constituted only after 1970.

The Supreme head of the Syriac Orthodox Church anointed the new leader of their Church in India during a solemn ceremony in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, on March 25. Mor Ignatius Aphrem II, the ...

The Russian Orthodox Church followed the fur hunters, building small houses of worship across the islands and converting many Unangax̂ to their faith. ... Dutch Harbor is the ...

How icons are made. Iconographer Elias Katsaros doesn't actually paint the icons directly onto the wall. It's more like wallpaper, the Rev. Peter Pier of St. John Chrysostom Antiochian Orthodox ...

A senior Ukrainian Orthodox Church official recently warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin thinks the Kremlin is in a 'holy war' with the West.

The Orthodox Church in America offers new churches mission-planting grants, but local members funded the new church. Machnee’s father, who owns a cabinet company, did the interior woodwork.

Russia's invasion, which began in February 2022, has also been a source of religious controversy within the Eastern Orthodox Church and has driven a split among believers in both Russia and Ukraine.

American officers used the building for apartments during World War II, and it survived the 1942 Bombing of Dutch Harbor. In 1960, the very day that the church’s priest completed a restoration of the ...