The Byzantine liturgy is based on liturgy developed by St. James for the Antiochaian church, but modified by St. Basil ... Coptic rite which is Orthodox and the Coptic rite that is loyal to the ...

This outspokenness saw Shenuda placed under house arrest during which the administration of the Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Chucrch was entrusted to a panel of five bishops. The following month ...

THE senior Russian Orthodox bishop who allegedly the target of a murder plot by two ethnic Ukrainian laymen has asked to meet the men who currently await trial (News, 14 March). The request by ...

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is backing an Oklahoma ... including from the U.S. Solicitor General’s Office and the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America.

Moscow (AFP) – Russia's FSB security service said Friday it had thwarted a Ukrainian-ordered plot to kill Tikhon Shevkunov, a senior bishop in the Russian Orthodox Church with close links to ...

The event marks the 38th time the chrism has been made in the Coptic Orthodox Church ... you a new birth by water and the Holy Spirit." Bishops anoint their palms and foreheads with chrism ...

DEWITT, N.Y. — (UPDATE) The Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse officially confirmed the closure of Bishop Grimes Junior-Senior High School after a day of confusion and fear for students and ...

But Orthodox priests Denis Popovich, 27, and Nikita Ivankovich, 28, were nabbed by Putin’s FSB ­security service. They appeared to confess in an FSB video, in which Popovich said ...

Pope Francis named him archbishop of Bangkok on Jan. 11. He comes to Bangkok after spending 15 years as bishop of Chiang Mai, an office given to him 2009 Arpondratana urged the Catholics to "walk ...

The statement was made available to OSV News. Archbishop Youssef Absi, the Melkite Greek Catholic patriarch of Antioch and All the East, along with John X, the Greek Orthodox patriarch of Antioch and ...

AFP becomes one of the main source for international news. We've got various news from around the world. I can say that AFP news content is diverse and credible, and they can fit with the ...

Former Bishop ... the Orthodox Church when he was ordained a deacon with the name Anthimos. During the following year, 1965, he was ordained a priest. As a member of the clergy, Anthimos was appointed ...