The St. Sophia Russian Orthodox Church choir kicked off Orthodox Christmas celebrations in Bethel by honoring Elders first.

Millions of people worldwide celebrated Orthodox Christmas nearly two weeks after much of the world marked the holiday.

Hello, this is Asami Terajima reporting from Kyiv on day 1,414 of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Today's top story: ...

Orthodox Christmas on January 7 brings together diverse communities across the Middle East and the global diaspora, ...

Video. Thousands gathered for Ethiopia's Orthodox Christmas Eve in Addis Ababa, marking the end of a 43-day fast with prayers, hymns, and midnight Mass.

By Clare Nuttall in Glasgow Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has renewed his campaign to reform the Armenian Apostolic ...

On Christmas Day, Orthodox believers try not only to observe the external traditions of the holiday, but also to deepen their ...

CORRECTION: The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Porfirije, met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Patriarch Kirill in Moscow in April. An earlier version of this story included ...

Ukrainian government moves to ban Orthodox church branch it says failed to completely sever longstanding ties with pro-war Moscow. Action deepens religious battleground in war, coming year after ...

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Swedish intelligence services believe that one of the country's Russian Orthodox churches could be a base for spying. Almost everything about the "onion-domed" church beside Västerås Airport, about an ...

WARSAW, Poland (RNS) — Ukrainian authorities moved Wednesday (July 2) to strip Metropolitan Onufriy, the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, of his Ukrainian citizenship, citing alleged ties ...