One morning in October of 2023, Miami police were called to remove a “squatter” who had, or so the ecclesiastical ...

As astonished parish leaders watched through the building’s Ring cameras, the two priests from South Carolina, who bore the traditional beards ... bishop or group of bishops.” The first ...

By that time, one of the Orthodox Church Fathers, Bishop Chrysostomos of Etna, had already written that long hair and beards were no more or less important to a Priest than “feathers are to a bird.” ...

The Orthodox Church, concerned to regulate monastic communities, severely penalised any behaviour that compromised masculine identity: shaving off one’s beard, and thereby appearing ... a ...

In 2002, he was invited to settle in Tlemcen to reestablish a Dominican presence six years after the assassination of Bishop Pierre Claverie ... face and long white beard, the Belgian Franciscan ...

Albania’s Orthodox Church has elected Joan Pelushi as its new leader following the death in January of Archbishop Anastasios, who had revived the church after the fall of communism in 1990 ...

Kate Middleton doesn’t seem too confident that her husband’s beard will last. The 43-year-old Princess of Wales made her return to the Irish Guards’ annual St. Patrick’s Day parade in London on March ...

Situated on the left-side upland plateau of Debed Canyon in the Lori province, Odzun is one of the largest villages in ...

A FORMER Russian Orthodox priest, now ministering as an Anglican, has urged Western church support for a close friend arrested in Moscow and accused of plotting to kill a senior Russian Orthodox ...

After Lipke's episcopal consecration, Orthodox Bishop Nikodim (Chibisov), metropolitan of Novosibirsk and Berdsk, invited him to visit. Nikodim also sent Orthodox representatives to a late ...

Among them were dozens of Russian Orthodox bishops and thousands of priests, often killed by firing squad. Many more Orthodox Christians were arrested and sent to labor camps. Christian ...