The humble Yup’ik mother and midwife known as Matushka Olga is now officially a saint in the Orthodox church, following a ...

Some became saints and others ... Marilyn Rouvelas, chair of Orthodox Deacons, a women’s ordination ministry in Virginia, said deaconesses are desperately needed in the U.S. “It’s hard ...

Unlike Catholicism, the Orthodox do not require miracles to confirm a saint, but some women have credited Olga ... is reflected by these local saints who reach out to those who hunger and thirst ...

Moreover, in a certain sense we fail to understand that the worldly role of women in the Orthodox Church, as evidenced by the Byzantine empresses who stand as saints in the Holy Church, is not ...

Mother Angelica was both orthodox in doctrine and traditional in ... fortis (strong woman), belonging to a long line of religious women who were pioneers in apostolic creativity and boldness.

These newly certified leaders, who some consider female Orthodox rabbis, go by the definition of rabbanit, which is how the religious Zionist community refers to female scholars, as opposed to ...

In many Orthodox circles, women are rarely given the opportunity to read Torah for fear it will make them think women can be rabbis. QUEEN ESTHER, cloaked in splendor. Mordechai passes on the all ...

Many of the nation’s largest denominations, including Roman Catholics, Southern Baptists, Mormons (Latter-day Saints), and the Orthodox Church in America, do not ordain women or allow them to lead ...

Some became saints and others ... Marilyn Rouvelas, chair of Orthodox Deacons, a women’s ordination ministry in Virginia, said deaconesses are desperately needed in the U.S. “It’s hard ...