The American Jewish Committee (AJC) has honored the spiritual leader of global Orthodox Christianity with the Human Dignity Award, in part for his advancement of Orthodox-Jewish relations. Patriarch ...

President Vladimir Putin’s decision to attack Ukraine has split the Orthodox Church. Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, a leading authority of the Eastern Orthodox Church, quickly condemned the ...

A rendering shows the design of the new Greek Orthodox Church that is being built in Payson. (Ken Hoglund) Read the Portuguese translation of this story here. The Greek Orthodox Church is building a ...

Jodi Hailey found her faith nearly two decades ago in an Orthodox bookstore — a place where she poked and prodded at the complex religion by asking questions and reading voraciously about the Early ...

TBILISI, Georgia — Speaking to Georgia’s religious and civil authorities on Saturday, Pope Francis affirmed the country’s Christian identity and called the Georgian Orthodox Church to recall the unity ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Orthodox Easter Service in Istanbul ATHENS (Reuters) - The Russian Orthodox Church has let Christian Orthodox fathers ...

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Orthodox Jews and evangelicals have a lot in common. Large majorities of both communities say that religion is very important to their lives — 83% of Orthodox Jews and 86% of white evangelicals. Both ...

After kissing the hand of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, 84-year-old Andrew Manos said, “This made my life complete now.” Bartholomew — the spiritual leader of some 300 million Eastern Orthodox ...

It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael quietly lived her entire life as a midwife and a mother of 13. As the wife of an Orthodox Christian ...