What is Orthodox Christmas? And why do millions of people celebrate it on January 7 - The ancient church in the Roman Empire set its religious feasts based on the Julian calendar ...

Millions of people worldwide celebrated Orthodox Christmas nearly two weeks after much of the world marked the holiday.

FILE - Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, center, delivers the Christmas service in the Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023. While much of the world has Christmas in ...

Orthodox Christmas explained: why millions celebrate on January 7, calendar differences, traditions, fasting, and global observances across Eastern Europe, Africa, and the Middle East worldwide.

In Istanbul, Pope Leo XIV will meet the patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church to show amity between two of the world’s largest Christian groups. By Ben Hubbard and Motoko Rich Stephen Hubbard was a ...

ISTANBUL (RNS) — The Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul appears intent on capitalizing on the Russian attack, keeping up a ...

LOS ANGELES(AP) — Often when a potential convert walks through the doors of his church, one of the first things the Very Rev. Andreas Blom encourages them to do is give up the thing that brought them ...

The Eastern Orthodox patriarch of Constantinople has expressed a desire that Christians in the East and the West begin celebrating Easter on a “unified date” rather than adhere to separate Lenten ...

Two Utahns in the Greek Orthodox Church have been elevated to the highest honor available to unordained members of the faith ...

Stephen Hubbard was a wanderer. But when he moved to Ukraine, the war brought arrest, torture and imprisonment. He turns 73 this week. By Kim Barker and Nataliya Vasilyeva The village parishioners’ ...