On January 2, an Orthodox church in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, was covered in blood. In the morning, a man burst into the church and turned the crucifix over, broke several icons, threw banners on the floor, ...
The Russian Orthodox Church has elected 62-year-old Metropolitan Kirill to serve as its Patriarch. As former head of the Church's foreign relations department, the spiritual leader has expressed his ...
NEW YORK (JTA) — Growing up in the Orthodox community of Monsey, New York, as the son of an African-American mother who converted to Judaism and a white Ashkenazi father who became religious later in ...
In late August of 2018, Patriarch Kirill, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, flew from Moscow to Istanbul on an urgent mission. He brought with him an entourage—a dozen clerics, diplomats, and ...
“In the whole history of the Orthodox Church in America, this has never been seen,” a priest said about the surge of young men drawn to the demanding practice of Christianity. “The Orthodox Church is ...
(RNS) — Nearly 400 Orthodox Christian theologians from 44 countries convened in the largest international conference of its kind in Greece on Thursday (Jan. 12) to discuss “Nicaea-sized” questions ...
A new survey of Orthodox Christians in America has found a larger-than-expected number of converts, mostly from Roman Catholic and evangelical Protestant backgrounds. The report, released by the ...
Drawn to its promise of a “trad” conservative lifestyle, young American men are increasingly converting to Russian Orthodoxy. But two generations ago, the Orthodox Church in the US was an ...
A woman lights a prayer candle at an Orthodox church in Moscow. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Orthodoxy is the third-largest branch of Christianity, after Catholicism and Protestantism. Today, there ...
Rabbi Isaiah Rothstein said he was singled out as a Jew of color in the Orthodox community in Monsey, New York. NEW YORK (JTA) — Growing up in the Orthodox community of Monsey, New York, as the son of ...
NEW YORK (JTA) — Growing up in the Orthodox community of Monsey, New York, as the son of an African-American mother who converted to Judaism and a white Ashkenazi father who became religious later in ...