(RNS) The Great and Holy Council of the Eastern Orthodox churches concluded Sunday (June 26). There was no shortage of controversy leading up to the council. The churches of Bulgaria, Russia and ...

Christians around the world observe Lent to varying degrees, but none with more zeal than the Eastern Orthodox, the vast branch of Christendom that split from the western Roman Catholic church a ...

Vatican City — On the feast of St. Andrew the Apostle, Pope Francis told the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople that while the Holy Spirit has in recent years prompted a “fraternal dialogue” ...

Eastern Orthodoxy in the U.S. is experiencing a surge in converts, partly due to online content. The Very Rev.

Mattingly: For Orthodox Christians in America, the 20th century was shaped by waves of believers fleeing wars, revolutions ...

Only a few decades ago there were relatively few good sources of information about the Eastern Orthodox Church, but a remarkable publishing surge has now made many fine books available. Though the ...

When the church was built, Gallaway had commissioned a local craftsman to build the “iconostase,” another required feature of ...

Catholic and Orthodox Churches find unity in God's mercy and in the responsibility to spread the Gospel, Pope Francis said Tuesday to a delegation from the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.

The theological dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches has reached a point where it seems appropriate to consider expanding the opportunities for the faithful of any ...

When Sarah Riccardi-Swartz moved from New York City to a small Appalachian town in West Virginia in the fall of 2017, she was searching for an answer to a puzzling question. Why had a group of ...

MOSCOW — The holiest day of the year for Orthodox Christians was reserved and glum in many countries where churches were closed to worshipers for Easter services because of restrictions aimed at ...