Eastern Orthodox Churches are self-governing bodies of Christians adhering to a pure and unbroken line from the first days of the Apostles and the disciples of Jesus. Originally in communion with the ...

Visit the homepage for more information. Eastern Orthodox churches today, to be differentiated from Roman Catholic communions of the Eastern Rite, are those churches which find their apostolic head in ...

Take away the history of a people or a culture or a nation and you effectively take away the people, the culture, and the ...

It is the second day of Holy Week following Palm Sunday. It is also a solemn observance embraced by Christian denominations worldwide, including the Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic, and Anglican ...

Questions surrounding the state of the Eastern Orthodox Church in Ukraine and its links to the Kremlin have made it descend from the spiritual realm into a fierce political arena replete with ...

It was a heart-wrenching choice. But when Daniel Gammerman decided to never set foot back in an Orthodox synagogue, he ...

The jurisdiction was granted autocephaly or independence in 2019 by the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, called “first among equals” among Eastern Orthodox leaders. The recognition ...

A haredi, or ultra-Orthodox, leader once joked to me that “few people leave Orthodoxy, but every one of them writes a book about it.” It was a sardonic comment about popular works by Jews ...

The minority pro-Romanian branch of Moldova's Orthodox Church accused clergy from the rival Moscow-linked branch of the church of campaigning against a referendum asking voters whether they back the ...

Ex-Moscow correspondent Lucy Ash examines the complicity of the Orthodox Church in the Kremlin’s war against Ukraine ...

Moldova's eastern neighbour. With more than 90% of Moldovans adhering to Orthodox Christianity, church actions could have a major effect on the Oct. 20 referendum - held alongside a presidential ...