Editor's note: This part 2 of an opinion series on churches of Orthodoxy. Part 1, "American converts are flooding ancient churches of Orthodoxy," is available online at reporternews.com. The Orthodox ...

For Orthodox Christians in America, the 20th century was shaped by waves of believers fleeing wars, revolutions and persecution in lands such as Greece, Syria, Russia and Romania. The Orthodox did ...

After a lengthy and tangled dispute over ownership of one of South Florida’s oldest Christian Orthodox churches, its long-time leadership has lost a pivotal legal battle — and the keys to the ...

This circa 1975 photo provided by her family shows Olga Michael, an Alaskan Yup’ik woman who became St. Olga of Kwethluk, Matushka of All Alaska. (Martha Nicolai) KWETHLUK, Alaska — “St. Olga of ...

A group of lawmakers in the United States has asked the U.S. Attorney General to look into whether some Orthodox churches in America may be connected to Russian special services. They want to know if ...

Greek Orthodoxy arrives in America -- Americanization and the immigrant church in the 1920s -- Greek Orthodoxy versus Protestant Congregationalism -- The Greek Orthodox Church in between Greece and ...

The conservative legal group Alliance for Defending Freedom, which filed on the churches’ behalf, argued in a press release that the state is singling out priests by punishing them for respecting the ...

Editor's note: This part 2 of an opinion series on churches of Orthodoxy. Part 1 is available here online. The Orthodox baptism rite includes a three-stage exorcism that is extremely detailed about ...

Priests who fail to report abuse learned in confession could face up to 364 days in jail and a $5,000 fine. The lawsuit, filed in federal district court, claims the state’s law violates the First and ...