The Orthodox Church claimed this move violated the Church’s constitution and was aimed at gaining international recognition for the Jacobite faction. Published - May 20, 2025 08:06 pm IST.

The Orthodox Church has also raised questions about the legitimacy of the Universal Holy Synod of the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch. “The synod was constituted only after 1970.

The Supreme head of the Syriac Orthodox Church anointed the new leader of their Church in India during a solemn ceremony in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, on March 25. Mor Ignatius Aphrem II, the ...

How icons are made. Iconographer Elias Katsaros doesn't actually paint the icons directly onto the wall. It's more like wallpaper, the Rev. Peter Pier of St. John Chrysostom Antiochian Orthodox ...

KOTTAYAM: The dispute within the Malankara Church appears to be escalating with the Orthodox Church on Friday coming out against Jacobite faction’s call for co-existence as sister churches.

The Orthodox Church in America offers new churches mission-planting grants, but local members funded the new church. Machnee’s father, who owns a cabinet company, did the interior woodwork.

SAINT CLAIR, Pa. — Monday marks Christmas Eve for worshippers who follow the Julian Calendar. Saint Michael The Archangel Orthodox Church in Saint Clair held its Christmas Eve service on Monday ...

An order from India’s top court has rekindled hope for settling a property dispute between two warring factions of the Oriental Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch, which is based in southern Kerala ...

IN A move towards autonomy from Moscow, the Estonian Orthodox Church Moscow Patriarchate (EOC-MP) is to change its statute to remove any references to the Russian Orthodox Church.. On the same day as ...

A day after President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a law banning the Russian-linked Orthodox Church in Ukraine, Pope Francis on Sunday warned that the move could infringe on the freedom of worship.

A few decades ago, the majority of Orthodox Christians living in Germany were from Greece and Russia. Today, the biggest Orthodox group is Romanian immigrants, says the OBKD, with 900,000 members.

In the 17th century AD, a church dedicated to the Archangel was built in Constantinople. Since then, the Orthodox have been honoring Gabriel on a specific day. The Archangel himself is primarily known ...