(RNS) — After the first Ukrainian-language liturgy was celebrated at St. Michael’s Cathedral in Cherkasy in central Ukraine on Thursday (Oct. 17), rival groups of Orthodox Christians clashed ...

Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant issued 7,000 additional army draft orders on Monday for individuals from the country’s ultra-Orthodox community, historically exempted from mandatory ...

(Photo: AFP) Israel's Defence Minister Yoav Gallant issued 7,000 additional army draft orders on Oct. 4 for individuals from the country's ultra-Orthodox community, historically exempted from ...

In three key swing districts in New York’s Hudson Valley, candidates are pressing for the support of ultra-Orthodox Jews, who tend to vote as a bloc. By Nicholas Fandos Reporting from Monsey ...

This is the recently built Russian Orthodox Church on the outskirts of the Swedish town of Västerås — to its backers, an innocent place of worship; but to an increasingly vocal group of critics, a ...

The New Skete monks' path from Catholic to Orthodox The small community — today comprising 10 monks and about the same number of adult German shepherds — was started by Franciscan friars who ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens ... Lucy and Iso excitedly woofed as they spotted the Orthodox monk, who heads the monastery’s German shepherd ...

Lucy and Iso excitedly woofed as they spotted the Orthodox monk, who heads the monastery’s German shepherd breeding program, coming to take them and 10-week-old Pyrena for their morning walks. For ...

CAMBRIDGE, New York (AP) — After he and his fellow ... Lucy and Iso excitedly woofed as they spotted the Orthodox monk, who heads the monastery’s German shepherd breeding program, coming ...

The community of St. Gerasimos Greek Orthodox Church in Manhattan ... President of the Association of Kefalonians “Ainos” of New York, Mr. Vasilios Kokkosis remarked that the Kefalonians of New York ...