SAINTS & ART: St. Otto of Bamberg’s feast crosses borders, just as he did to evangelize a still-pagan Pomerania. St. Otto of Bamberg, whose feast is observed July 2 in the United States, is also ...

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

Domus accompanies you on a walk to discover the area of Porta Venezia, tracing its evolution from the sixteenth-century ...

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, ...

Today is primary day across New York, as registered voters select their party nominees in races that include Albany mayor and ...

India on Sunday evacuated more than 300 Indian nationals from Iran amid the escalating tensions between the Persian Gulf nation and Israel following the US bombing of three Iranian nuclear sites. The ...

The Orthodox would concur, but based on the church’s own ascetic understanding of the relation between faith and works. A condemnation of “works-righteousness” similar to Luther’s comes ...

Ihad Abayad, another congregant at the church, said there used to be about 1,400 Christian families in Gaza, "but after this war, only 350 to 400 families are left".

Good Friday services at the Greek Orthodox St Porphyrius Church, one of three Christian places of worship in Gaza city, along with the Catholic Holy Family Church and the Baptist Church, saw reduced ...

Last spring, the Church called Putin’s “special military operation” a Holy War to protect the world from a west that had succumbed to Satanism. This past Orthodox Christmas, on 6th January, in ...

The Orthodox Church in America did not answer questions about how much choice its clergy have over the details included in its public directory. Encourage discretion in online posts and streams.

The traditional Orthodox Nativity Fast begins on November 15th, lasts 40 days, ending on December 24th, Christmas Eve. It starts approximately two weeks earlier than Advent and it is more solemn.