The ANCA-WR and a delegation of Armenian legal experts, clergy, elected officials, and human rights advocates presented ...

There seems no right answer to which way the sign of the cross should be made – either from left to right, as is done in the ...

Ash Wednesday falls on Wednesday, Feb. 18. The holy day marks the beginning of Lent. Easter Sunday will fall on April 5 in 2026. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, a period for repentance and ...

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) is considering whether Greece violates human rights law by displaying Orthodox ...

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir voices support for the ultra-Orthodox Hasmonean Brigade following the violent disruption of its conference in Bnei Brak last night. According to the military, ...

Beginning around the 2nd century, the followers of Jesus started wearing crosses, miniature representations of his crucifixion, as public professions of a still relatively new faith. Nearly 2,000 ...

In 2017, the parish priest of the Svjato-Onežskij cathedral on the Russian Arctic coast began negotiations with the Norwegian mayor of Vardø to build a Russian Orthodox chapel on the fishing island.

This is a partner material of Novaya Gazeta Europe and the Barents Observer. Vardø is an island in northern Norway located on the coast of the Barents Sea. It is home to a picturesque fishing town ...

CHICO — Long before the Rev. Ian Shipley began leading Chico’s Orthodox Christian community, he converted to the faith at age 16, coming from a nonreligious household. “I was a hippie kid,” Shipley, a ...

Vatican City, May 22: A delegation from the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church met Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on May 19, extending fraternal greetings and prayerful wishes from His Holiness Baselios ...

Russian military bloggers have criticized a Chechen award ceremony for Adam Kadyrov, son of regional leader Ramzan Kadyrov, after the Russian national emblem was displayed without its Orthodox crosses ...

At a pivotal moment in the 2002 sleeper hit “My Big Fat Greek Wedding,” Ian Miller — from a family with a thin veneer of Protestant faith, at best — agrees to be baptized as a Greek Orthodox Christian ...