The Christian Century

Eastern Orthodox Church ordains Zimbabwean woman as its first deaconess

On May 2, the Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and all of Africa ordained in Zimbabwe the first deaconess of any patriarchate in the global Eastern Orthodox Church, marking the culmination of years ...
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Alaska Native woman, 'everybody's helper,' is Orthodox church's first female North American saint

KWETHLUK, Alaska (AP) — It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael quietly lived her entire life as a midwife and a mother of 13. As the wife ...
Religion News Service

Can ecumenism survive some Orthodox churches' resistance to ordained women?

(RNS) — In January, at an ecumenical prayer service in Warsaw for International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a recently ordained Lutheran priest, the Rev. Wiktoria Matloch, was asked to leave the event ...
The Christian Century

Modern Orthodox Judaism says 'no' to women rabbis

(RNS) Women who would be Orthodox rabbis had a major setback Friday (October 30) when the highest religious body for Modern Orthodox Jews ruled against their ordination. The Rabbinical Council of ...
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Alaska Native woman, ‘everybody’s helper,’ is Orthodox church’s first female North American saint

KWETHLUK, Alaska (AP) — It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael quietly lived her entire life as a midwife and a mother of 13. As the wife ...