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

It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael quietly lived her entire ...

Washington state's law could place clergy at odds with civil law in order to uphold church law regarding seal of confessional ...

Back in 1813, a ruling in People v. Philips upheld the clergy-penitent, also known as priest-penitent, privilege in American law.

EASTERN ORTHODOX CHURCHES. There are many parallels between the beliefs of the Eastern Orthodox church and those of the Roman Catholic church, but there are also fundamental differences. Some of the ...

Romanian Service of Deutsche Welle Eight bishops from various churches of the Hungarian minority in Romania issued a joint appeal to vote against extremism on Sunday. Deutsche Welle’s Romanian Service ...

Most come with their families. In Germany, Orthodox Christian services are held in Greek or Arabic, Serbian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Russian, Romanian — and even Aramaic, the language Jesus spoke.

The legal prohibition of the Romanian Greek-Catholic Church and the arrest of the bishop in 1948, along with other Greek-Catholic bishops such as Valeriu Traian Frentiu, Alexandru Rusu, Ioan Balan, ...

Ordained a bishop in September 2023, Father Nectarie served as Assistant Bishop for the Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese of Western Europe, which also included the jurisdiction of the newly established ...

ROMANIAN church leaders have urged calm after the annulment this month by top judges of their country’s presidential election. “Political party representatives have gone to parishes to mobilise ...

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 ...