This church became known as the Coptic church because Copt is the Arabic and Greek word for Egyptian. Before the Moslem invasion in 641 the Copts fell into heresy due to their rejection of the ...

COMMENTARY: American policy-makers should take this pathology into account when pondering whatever negotiations, or other ...

Jubilee entered its second month, Pope Francis made a real-world effort to work for peace on Saturday, looking at the issue ...

UKRAINIAN church representatives have voiced shock at the closure of foreign-aid programmes by the United States, announced on Monday as Russia pressed on with its three-year invasion. “This ...

A number of Orthodox priests who are against Russia's invasion of Ukraine have sought refuge in Germany, where they face many challenges. After Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in ...

On 28 February 2022, four days into Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian forces had already occupied some towns on the Azov Sea coast, got close to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power ...

Ellie Cook is a Newsweek security and defense reporter based in London, U.K. Her work focuses largely on the Russia-Ukraine war, the U.S. military, weapons systems and emerging technology.

Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), met the leader of the independent Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) Metropolitan Epiphaniy on 14 ...

The ancient Greek religious festival of Anthesteria was revived in the center of the old city in Athens on Sunday.

Army draft officer shot dead in central Ukraine on Friday Explosions reported at two draft offices over weekend Ukraine army chief demands thorough investigations Incidents pile pressure on ...

Russia built a sickening torture system to persecute Ukrainian prisoners of war — where captives were given relentless electrical shocks to their genitals and were beaten so savagely that police ...