In a gesture of unity, Orthodox priests have been encouraged to shave their beards, as a symbolic act of brotherhood with ...

Father Andrew Damick, an Eastern Orthodox priest, examines the case of a Greek Orthodox same-sex couple who married in a New York ceremony. The legally valid ceremony uniting Daniel Storrs and ...

Albania’s Orthodox Church has held an enthronement ceremony for its new Archbishop Joan, who succeeded Archbishop Anastasios ...

A number of Russian priests who have condemned the war have been expelled from the church, with some leaving the country – many relocating to other Eastern Orthodox nations or Istanbul.

(RNS) — On Thursday (May 2), the Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and all of Africa ordained in Zimbabwe the first deaconess of any patriarchate in the global Eastern Orthodox Church ...

Eastern Orthodox Christianity predates Protestantism by about 500 years. Their core beliefs are similar to those of Catholicism. In fact, the creeds of the two denominations are nearly identical.

A Russian Orthodox priest has been arrested over a 2014 photograph ... the largest of the Eastern Orthodox churches with an estimated 90 million members, strongly backs the invasion of Ukraine.

Using Emperor Constantine’s famous vision of the cross, Archbishop Elpidophoros presented Trump with a holy cross, calling it ...