The beards of Orthodox priests are some of their most striking attributes, marking them as different from other Western ...

Russian media constantly broadcasts about the “fake” nature of Ukrainian identity, using language reminiscent of past ...

For three weeks in January, 25 seminarians and two leaders from The St. Paul Seminary in St. Paul traveled and prayed in the ...

Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Church, has zealously backed Russia’s ‘special military operation’ and castigates a morally ...

ROME — Pope Francis was in critical condition Saturday after he suffered a prolonged asthmatic respiratory crisis while being ...

A senior Ukrainian Orthodox Church official recently warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin thinks the Kremlin is in a 'holy war' with the West.

The Rev. Andriy Halavin, an Orthodox priest at the Church of St. Andrew ... Crimea and Russian-backed separatists occupied parts of eastern Ukraine. “They moved here to escape, and then they ...

In the shadow of St Peter’s Basilica, across the piazza degli scalpellini, or “square of the stonecutters”, lies another, more ancient structure.

The Byzantine rite developed in the East, and is more similar to Eastern Orthodox worship practices ... He was one of five American priests who attended a March 2024 meeting of parish priests ...

He made the uncanny cool for a kid like me, whose dollhouse contained a miniature Ouija board in the child’s room and a ghost made of Kleenex and cotton balls in the attic. By Lisa Brown A ...