The church is part of the Diocese of Eastern Pennsylvania of the Orthodox Church of America. The Orthodox religion origins in this country would have had a Russian flavor, but everything is in ...

According to local media reports, the images were recorded on Friday at the premiere of a documentary ... tradition in Eastern Christianity and is not offensive by any means. Ukraine has been gripped ...

Catholicos Aboon Mor Baselios Thomas I, the spiritual head of the Syrian Orthodox Church ... where the Damascus-based Church has more than 2 million followers. Thomas, affectionately called Bava, “was ...

On Friday, the Greek Orthodox Church called for an emergency meeting to discuss a major reform to be launched. The move comes after the Church was rocked by overwhelming scandals on sex and finance ...

In private correspondence from 1998, the then Prince of Wales admitted feeling drawn to the ‘timeless traditions’ of the Orthodox Church The King once praised the Orthodox Church as the only ...

While Pentecost comes on a Monday, the previous Sunday is the scene of late-night vigils at many Orthodox churches. Churches may be adorned with flowers and other greenery, priest wear green too, and ...

Romanian hymns echo through the small wooden church of Saint Alexander of Svir in Cricova, a town north of Moldova’s capital, Chișinău. Here, Orthodox priest Father Andrei Percic and his wife ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. Cyprus has a population of about 1.1 million, nearly 82 percent of whom follow the Greek Orthodox Church and celebrate Easter accordingly, ...

A Church sui iuiris is a distinct community of faithful within a rite of the Church. For example, there are 22 eastern Churches sui iuris, made up of two Alexandrian, three Antiochene, one ...

For the peace of the whole world, for the stability of the holy churches of God, and for the unity of all, let us pray to the Lord. For this holy house and for those who enter it with faith, reverence ...

As Vicar of the universal Church, the Pope is shepherd of the rites of the West and the East. The eastern rites which ... to the liturgy used by the Orthodox churches. After the schism between ...