Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Orthodox Christians in Europe and the wider world packed churches on Saturday night for Christmas Eve services. Traditions vary, ...

Orthodox Christians should not be afraid of the end of the world, because the apocalypse will be the time of the second meeting of believers with Jesus Christ. This was announced on May 13 by Abbot ...

Nearly 90% of the world’s Christians celebrated the most important holiday in their faith last Sunday, but for those in the Eastern Orthodox tradition — including about 20,000 in the Baltimore area — ...

Friday is Christmas Eve for Orthodox Christians around the world. A member of the Orthodox faith in British Columbia, Canada, talks about her community's holiday traditions. Today is Christmas Eve, ...

For many Christians, Easter was celebrated this year on March 31. But for Eastern Orthodox Christians, the celebration of Jesus Christ's Resurrection occurs more than a month later, on May 5. Most ...

(RNS) — Bishop Shio Mujiri will now be known as Patriarch Shio III, leading the Georgian Orthodox Church, one of the most prominent institutions in the country. He was enthroned in the 1,000-year-old ...

Orthodox Christians in Europe, Africa and the Middle East celebrated Orthodox Easter on Sunday. But for those living in Ukraine, the holiest day on the Christian calendar was muted by a withering ...

Dressed head to toe in white, hundreds of Ethiopian Orthodox Christians packed tightly into Washington, D.C.’s DSK Mariam Church to sing hymns in the ancient language Ge’ez, to pray, and to stand ...

(RNS) — Metropolitan Kallistos Ware, without a doubt the most renowned and popular Orthodox Christian theologian of recent decades, died on Wednesday (Aug. 24) at 87. A convert to Orthodox faith, he ...

A coalition of bipartisan lawmakers introduced a bill Thursday to shed light on the alleged persecution of Christians and other religions by Russian forces in occupied Ukraine — but it leaves out one ...