EAST CHICAGO | Natalie and Ostoja Tomich brought their three boys to the Lazarus Saturday liturgy at St. George Serbian Orthodox Church as part of a tradition going back four generations. "We come ...

In Istanbul, Pope Leo XIV will meet the patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church to show amity between two of the world’s ...

The Eastern Orthodox Church continued its growth in East Texas last week as St. Paisios Orthodox Mission held its first services in Nacogdoches. The Divine Liturgy — the church’s worship service — on ...

VALPARAISO — Audrey White, 18, has happily found her new religious home at Iakovos Greek Orthodox Church. White, who converted to the Eastern Orthodox Christian religion on April 27, celebrated her ...

On 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, marking the culmination of years ...

“The Russian Orthodox Church doesn’t recognize those decisions and won’t fulfill them,” Archbishop Hilarion Alfeyev said in Belarus after a meeting of the synod of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Pope Leo XIV called for unity among Christians on Friday at an ecumenical prayer service on the shores of Lake Iznik to ...

Pope Leo XIV joins the leader of the world's Orthodox Christians Friday to celebrate 1,700 years since one of the early ...

Most Orthodox and Eastern Rite Christians celebrate Christmas according to the Julian calendar on January 7, two weeks after Christians who observe the holiday using the Gregorian calendar. Here's a ...

Christmas Day is observed by many Orthodox Christians on January 7 if their church uses the Julian, not the Gregorian, calendar. The Julian calendar is named after Roman emperor Julius Caesar. In this ...