The rule of fasting, which is dependent on the Church's ... fast days for Orthodox Christians are all Wednesdays and Fridays throughout the year (except for fast-free periods), the four canonical fast ...

Immigration helped fuel the growth of America’s Orthodox churches more than a century ago. Now, it’s conversions from other ...

Some 62,000 Orthodox Christians in Israel are celebrating ... Manger Square, the site of the Church of the Nativity, beneath which Jesus is believed to have been born in a cave, was without ...