THE Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) has issued a strongly worded statement condemning the Russian state’s policy of rehabilitating Soviet-era figures and its growing embrace of ...

A bit snippy! The prime minister of Armenia offered to show off his penis to the supreme leader of the nation’s Orthodox Church to prove to a disapproving priest that he was uncircumcised. Prime ...

Alaska Native Woman, 'Everybody's Helper,' Is Orthodox Church's First Female North American Saint KWETHLUK, Alaska (AP) — It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska ...

The Orthodox Church in America has its first female saint from North America.

Alaska Native woman, 'everybody's helper,' is Orthodox church's first female North American saint The Orthodox Church in America has its first female saint from North America ...

A suicide bomber has killed at least 25 people and injured 63 of the 350 congregants after opening fire and then self-detonating at a Greek Orthodox church in Syria on Sunday.

The humble Yup’ik mother and midwife known as Matushka Olga is now officially a saint in the Orthodox church, after a historic two-day gathering that drew hundreds to her home village of ...

A suicide bomber in Syria opened fire then detonated an explosive vest inside a Greek Orthodox church filled with people praying on Sunday, killing at least 22 and wounding 63 others, state media ...

About 150 devotees squeezed into the sanctuary of Saint Nicholas Orthodox Church, whose golden onion domes rise above the village's modest one-story homes.

The Yup’ik woman became known in church communities across Alaska for quiet generosity, piety and compassion — particularly as a consoler of women who had suffered from abuse, from miscarriage ...

Several Orthodox monks and martyrs with ties to Alaska have already been canonized in the Orthodox Church in America, the now-independent offspring of the Russian Orthodox Church.

After at least 22 worshipers were killed Sunday in a suicide attack on a Greek Orthodox Church in Damascus, Israel’s Interior Minister Moshe Arbel sends a letter of condolence to the Orthodox ...