This was the norm in Ireland and Britain until fairly recently with many couples meeting at church or attending services ...

Arizona Christian University has been a safe haven for 18-year-old Kateryna Kashyrina, who fled Ukraine three years ago. After miracles opened the door to college athletics in Glendale, the junior is ...

At Israel’s founding in 1948, the new nation’s leaders agreed that ultra-Orthodox men — known as the Haredim, or God-fearing, ...

Baptism does what nothing else can. As Martin Luther said, by baptism “we are made holy and are saved, which no other kind of ...

From the gastronomic specialties of Sifnos to the enigmatic ruins of the Dodecanese, each Greek island has its own distinct ...

English King Richard the Lionheart is said to have served it to guests at his 1191 wedding in Cyprus ... The island’s Orthodox Church later adopted Commandaria as its communion wine during ...

Vladimir Putin accused Jews of attacking the Russian Orthodox Church and suggested that they lacked family and “roots,” the latest antisemitic statement from the Russian leader since his 2022 ...

Zelensky made these remarks in a meeting with a leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, and a close aide of Pope Francis, Cardinal Pietro Parolin. Vladimir Putin ...

Arizona’s longest-standing sworn peace officer is 77-year-old Henry Cusson, who joined the Phoenix Police Department in 1970. It's believed to be the first example in the U.S. of a state court ...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s Orthodox Church on Sunday elected Joan Pelushi as its new leader following the death in January of Archbishop Anastasios, who had revived the church after the ...

In what many are calling a historic moment for Jewish life in eastern Hungary, the city of Debrecen will ... adjacent to Debrecen’s main Orthodox synagogue, previously housed a school before falling ...