Visit the homepage for more information. Eastern Orthodox churches today, to be differentiated from Roman Catholic communions of the Eastern Rite, are those churches which find their apostolic head in ...

His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America received a group of catechumens into the Orthodox Church through Baptism and Chrismation at Ss. Catherine and George Greek Orthodox Church in Astoria, ...

Eastern Orthodox Churches are self-governing bodies of Christians adhering to a pure and unbroken line from the first days of the Apostles and the disciples of Jesus. Originally in communion with the ...

Yet the search for information and understanding has laid bare how little attention scholars of religion and historians of Christianity, especially in the English-speaking world, have devoted to ...

He returned a third and final time in 1859 after securing the sponsorship of the Russian tsar, considered the “defender and protector” of the Eastern Orthodox Church, to which the Sinai ...

The Monastery of the Caves, one of the holiest sites of Eastern Orthodox Christians, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 23, 2023. EFREM LUKATSKY / AP Ukraine's parliament on Tuesday, August 20 ...

Near Poland’s border with Belarus, the peculiar folk craft of ‘whispering’ or healing with prayers of Orthodox provenance ... the above-quoted Małgorzata Anna Charyton. In 2009, the script of the play ...

In the territory that Russian forces occupy in eastern Ukraine, they have attempted to dismantle the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. In a video meeting with Kirill in March of 2022, Francis made an ...

But for almost half of U.S. Orthodox Christians, whose liturgy involves processions, incense, kissing icons and crosses and receiving Communion from a shared spoon and chalice, liturgical services ...

MOSCOW, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Russia on Tuesday condemned a move by Ukraine to ban a Moscow-linked branch of the Orthodox Church, describing it as an attack on Christianity and a blow to freedom of ...

the law does not pertain to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, the church to which the majority of Ukrainian Christians belong. Claims that Ukraine banned the Orthodox Church entirely or that it ...