Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East John X received Metropolitan Ignatius Demetriados and Father Emmanuel ...

Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), met the leader of the ...

Further reading: Kirill, the extremely political Russian Orthodox patriarch In November 2019, three years after the restrictive Yarovaya laws of 2016—which banned various “missionary ...

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The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity began January 18. Once a major obstacle for other Christian churches, the primacy of ...

Across Russia, the devout celebrate Epiphany on January 19 by immersing themselves in frigid water through holes cut through ...

Military medic Natalya carried a jug of water blessed by priests at the Sviatogirsk monastery in east Ukraine as she ...

However local emergency services in some regions cancelled events, saying it was too hazardous for worshippers to cut bathing ...

Russians in the southern city of Anapa took their traditional Epiphany dips in waters affected by a major oil spill, ...

Thousands of Russians celebrating the Orthodox Christian feast day of Epiphany, where worshippers bathe in the icy waters of ...

TASS-FACTBOX. On January 19, Orthodox believers in Russia celebrate Epiphany, or the Baptism of the Lord, one of the 12 major Christian holidays (along with Easter) dogmatically connected with the ...

Amid repeated calls for the dismissal of Patriarch John X Yazigi, these demands appear unrealistic and illogical, especially ...