The Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church here on Thursday reiterated its stance that the collective of Oriental Orthodox Churches had neither convened a meeting nor extended an invitation for peace talks.

The Ukrainian parliament has banned a branch of the Orthodox church, linked to the Russian Orthodox Church. Kyiv says the church, called the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), has been spreading ...

Ukraine has adopted a law to ban religious groups linked to Moscow in a move targeting the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which the government has accused of complicity in Russia’s full-scale invasion of ...

Orthodox Jewish students at Brandeis University slammed the institution’s administrators for placing an advertisement in The New York Times Magazine that called the institution “anything but orthodox, ...

His Grace Zachariah Mar Nicholovos, the metropolitan, or head, of the Northeast American Diocese of the Indian Orthodox Church. NISKAYUNA — His Grace Zachariah Mar Nicholovos, the metropolitan, or ...

While the Easter season ended for some on April 17, Sunday will mark Easter for Orthodox Christians. Easter, a “moveable feast,” does not happen on the same day each year. Western Christianity ...

WASHINGTON — With every Lent, Catholic parishes enter into the final stretch of preparing people for full initiation into the Catholic Church at the Easter vigil. But parishes that have Orthodox ...

To Modern Orthodox parents frantically juggling children’s baths, last minute work crises, and Shabbat preparations before lighting candles at 3:58 p.m — life may seem pretty stressful, even chaotic.

Along with Roman Catholicism and Protestantism, Orthodox Christianity is one of the world’s three major Christian traditions. But unlike the other two large branches of Christianity, which have spread ...

A woman lights a prayer candle at an Orthodox church in Moscow. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Orthodoxy is the third-largest branch of Christianity, after Catholicism and Protestantism. Today, there ...

Alleged victims and advocates say sex abuse is widespread but rarely discussed. May 5, 2009— -- When Joel Engelman was 8 years old, he says, he was called from his Hebrew class to the principal's ...