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

The Holy Dormition Stavropegic Monastery in Zhirovichi is rightly referred to as Belarus’ jewel of Orthodoxy At the beginning of ...

COMMENTARY: American policy-makers should take this pathology into account when pondering whatever negotiations, or other ...

The monks’ republic situated on the peninsula of Mount Athos in the north-western region of Greece was founded in 963 and is home to twenty monasteries with Orthodox ... of God. The inhabitants ...

Believers call him the Son of God. Skeptics dismiss him ... A bejeweled icon, or encolpion, worn by Theophilos III, Greek Orthodox patriarch of Jerusalem and all Palestine, venerates the Virgin ...

In 2023, a father fled Kherson, where his wife died and Russian occupiers destroyed his apartment. The young widower found a ...

The Reformation split the Church into Catholic and Protestant factions, creating two roads to salvation - both of which claimed to be true. So it was very important to people that the Scottish state ...

It's not even 6:30 a.m. and already the sun is beaming through the windows like it has something to prove. It's only magnified by the gleaming white-stone beach and aquamarine wat ...

smashed the icons, destroyed the relics and whitewashed the walls of its churches over night. People would no longer be distracted from God's glory by the glitter and rich hangings of the Catholic ...

There is also a cafe in the park where you can have a snack and a cup of coffee. And for those who want to enjoy the peace ...

“I was saved by God to make America great again ... Some argue that Trump’s faith is expedient and that the love-in with religious groups is purely transactional. After the inauguration ...

Rejected Elsewhere, These LGBTQ Jews Find Love and Acceptance in the Connecticut Woods FALLS VILLAGE, Conn. (RNS) — One day into a three-day retreat for Orthodox Jews who identify ... “I was like, oh ...