Patriarch Nikon (left) leads the revision of the church service books, with Tsar Alexei seated on the throne. Nikon's reforms were the catalyst for the church schism. Painting by Aleksey Kivshenko.

A journalist drawn back to the war-ravaged city of Odesa discovered that Orthodoxy in Ukraine was in a conflict zone of its own A journalist drawn back to the war-ravaged city of Odesa discovered ...

They have a proponent in this integrationist approach in the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, Prince Mohammed bin Salman. He has turned reformer: dispensing with the clerics, whose influence on the ...

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This would mark a first in the history of Eastern Churches. Never since the Great Schism of 1054 have religion and politics been intertwined to this extent. Standing amidst the books in the shop ...

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A religious schism has turned deadly in Nigeria, with a church member fatally shot and two young children killed as homes were set ablaze, according to United Methodist News Service. The news service ...