On May 2, the Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and all of Africa ordained in Zimbabwe the first deaconess of any patriarchate in the global Eastern Orthodox Church, marking the culmination of years ...

Stephen Hubbard was a wanderer. But when he moved to Ukraine, the war brought arrest, torture and imprisonment. He turns 73 this week. By Kim Barker and Nataliya Vasilyeva The village parishioners’ ...

The Nicene Creed was formulated 1,700 years ago in AD 325 at the Council of Nicaea. Later, one clause in it called the ...

The Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa has been on the way to diaconal ordination of women for several years. Angelic Molen of Zimbabwe was ordained a deaconess in the Orthodox ...

Pope Leo XIV received members of a delegation from the Eastern Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarchate in a June 28 audience held at the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican in the context of the June 29 ...

ISTANBUL (RNS) — 'The fact that we are celebrating together, it's of course, a joy because it is something which is reminding us that we are all the same,' said the Rev. Luca Refatti, an Italian-born ...

Father Moses McPherson describes himself on Instagram as a 220 pound "Orthodox priest, husband, father" who can lift a total of 1,664 pounds in the squat, bench and deadlift. (He claims to hold the ...

Hidden deep within the forest, this abandoned Eastern Orthodox Ukrainian church stands as a quiet testament to faith and history. Surrounded by nature’s embrace, its once vibrant icons and intricate ...

In the same solemn ceremony Nov. 21, 1964, in which Pope St. Paul VI promulgated Vatican II’s Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Lumen Gentium, and the Council’s Decree on Ecumenism, Unitatis ...