OT 434-435; JBC, p. 517] Now the Catholic Church is not alone in accepting the Books which Protestants label as "Apocrypha." The Coptic, Greek and Russian Orthodox churches also recognize these ...

It may surprise most people to know that there are many different rites within the Catholic Church ... if not identical to the liturgy used by the Orthodox churches. After the schism between ...

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

The anti-abortion movement is on the rise in Russia, and the Kremlin is responding by changing the law to make terminations more difficult.

Russian forces attacked the city of Zaporizhzhia with a ballistic missile on the morning of 18 January, damaging St Andrew's ...

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

the SBI said. Law enforcement officials called Novynskyi a "handler" of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) in Ukraine. In December 2022, Ukraine imposed sanctions against him and other leaders 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 ...

Thousands of Orthodox Christians marked the feast day of Epiphany on Sunday with a traditional dip into icy water.

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. Cyprus has a population of about 1.1 million, nearly 82 percent of whom follow the Greek Orthodox Church and celebrate Easter accordingly, ...