Pope Leo XIV is set to embark on his first trip abroad with a visit to Turkey, marking a key event in Catholic and Orthodox ...

ISTANBUL (RNS) — In an ongoing struggle between the Atheist Union of Greece and Greece’s Ministry of Education, Greece’s Council of State ruled this month that Greek Orthodox students cannot be ...

In the whole history of the Orthodox Church in America, this has never been seen,” a priest said about the surge of young men ...

Turkey's Christian community, which hosts Pope Leo XIV this week, was a minority under the Ottoman Empire whose numbers have ...

By choosing to make his first trip as pope to Turkey and Lebanon, Pope Leo XIV will shine a huge spotlight on the faith ...

Starting in 2025, Dutch public schools will offer Orthodox Christianity lessons, marking the faith’s entry into the national ...

The Great Schism of 1054, when the Greek Orthodox Church officially split with the Catholic Church, still has reverberations across the globe. Orthodox Christians have decreased as a share of the ...

Icons — paintings that represent saints, Jesus, the Virgin Mary and biblical events — are a staple of Greek Orthodox churches, said Father Seraphim Ramos, the second priest of St. John the Baptist ...

Athens, Greece • The Metropolitan Amvrosios of Kalavryta, a fiery conservative Greek Orthodox bishop known for criticizing, often in intemperate terms, those who he believed acted in a “non-Christian” ...

The Orthodox Church commemorates the Feast Day of Saint Catherine (Agia Ekaterini) of Alexandria, annually on November 25th ...

CAIRO – The leaders of the world's Orthodox Christian churches ended a historic gathering on the Greek island of Crete on Sunday hoping to repeat the meeting within a decade, despite a boycott by the ...

A 2024 survey by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology found that 56% of Orthodox Ukrainians identified with the ...