LOS ANGELES (AP) — Often when a potential convert walks through the doors of his church, one of the first things the Very Rev. Andreas Blom encourages them to do is give up the thing that brought them ...

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 ...

“The Russian Orthodox Church doesn’t recognize those decisions and won’t fulfill them,” Archbishop Hilarion Alfeyev said in Belarus after a meeting of the synod of the Russian Orthodox Church.

One of the world’s most ancient Christian churches is moving into Nacogdoches to offer weekly services, the first of its kind in Deep East Texas. The Eastern Orthodox Church will celebrate the Divine ...

DUBASARI VECHI, Moldova -- Sitting in the darkened nave of the church where he has led prayers and provided spiritual support for 19 years, a silver crucifix pendant standing out against his black ...

The Rev. Kathryn Adams of Canfield, right, poses with her daughter, Sarah Emerick-Craig, outside Christ the Savior Holy Spirit Orthodox Church in Norwood, where Sarah attends. After serving as an ...

For many Christians, Easter was celebrated this year on March 31. But for Eastern Orthodox Christians, the celebration of Jesus Christ's Resurrection occurs more than a month later, on May 5. Most ...

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