A Christmas tree burns in the city of Hama, in a video released on social media has stirred fear and fury among Syria's ...

Syrian church leaders are advising Christians to scale back Christmas celebrations this year, despite assurances from the ...

St. Metrophanes Chi-Sung, also known as Father Metrophanes, is a key figure in the history of Orthodoxy in China. Credit: courtesy of the Holy Transfiguration ...

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Many Minoan customs and elements of this culture and traditions of Crete survived through the Christian Orthodox religion. Credit: ArchaiOptix / Wkimedia Commons Numerous customs, cultural practices, ...

Syria’s historic ethnic and religious minorities also include Muslim Kurds and Shi’ites – who feared during the civil war ...

"I put my head in my hands and started to cry. We had never gotten too in-depth about the religions of our families — and now ...

De facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa told Christians they are free to practise their faith but many are not convinced. Read more ...

(JTA) — An Orthodox rabbi, Steve Greenberg, officiated at a same-sex wedding. Greenberg, who is openly gay, married Yoni Bock and Ron Kaplan at the 6th & I Synagogue in Washington last week ...

He summoned a priest and told him to prepare a secret place for him in the church during the Liturgy. When the appointed day arrived, dressed as an Orthodox Christian, he went to the Patriarchate and ...

So Christenson began exploring other denominations in college and landed on perhaps the most traditional of all: Orthodox Christianity. In 2022, at the age of 25, he converted. “It seems to me ...