"St. Olga of Kwethluk, Matushka of All Alaska," as she is officially known, was canonized June 19 as the first female ...

Questions surrounding the state of the Eastern Orthodox Church in Ukraine and its links to the Kremlin have made it descend from the spiritual realm into a fierce political arena replete with ...

She "heard the bell and asked her son, 'Oh, maybe somebody died,'" George Acsente, Irimie's pastor at Saints Constantine and Helen Romanian Orthodox Church in Lilburn, Georgia, told USA TODAY. It ...

Three of the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church’s icons are site-specific. Throughout each section, the experience is supplemented with informational videos, audio narration, and slideshows.

The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), helmed by Kirill since 2009, has tens of thousands of parishes in Russia and elsewhere, from California to Kazakhstan to Ukraine’s Kyiv.

On her desk was a large photograph of Patriarch Ilia II, the head of Georgia's Orthodox Church and the country's most popular public figure. It is his ultra-conservative message - in one sermon ...

Palestinians search the destroyed annex of the Greek Orthodox St. Porphyrios Church, damaged in a strike on Gaza City on October 20, 2023.

The church is khaki green, topped with a gold Orthodox cross. The diameter of the main dome, at 19.45m, references the end of the second world war. Nazi tanks were melted to make the floor.

Russian Patriarch Kirill's full-throated blessing for Moscow's invasion of Ukraine has splintered the worldwide Orthodox Church and unleashed an internal rebellion that experts say is unprecedented.

Many Orthodox leaders have openly criticized Vladimir Putin’s decision to launch the war, in a contrast to Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill’s continuing tacit support.

Jonathan L. Zecher is a member of the Antiochian Orthodox Church. There is a famous tale within Russian Orthodox Christianity that goes like this: In the 16th century, Ivan IV – the Terrible ...

This week, France 24 commemorates the 30 years of the dissolution of the USSR. We continue our journey through former Soviet republics in Georgia, where the Georgian Orthodox Church enjoys ...