Once a Muslim-majority nation, Kosovo is witnessing a quiet but growing movement of Albanians converting to Catholicism. Advocates of the shift argue they are reclaiming their ancestral faith, once ...

KOCANI, North Macedonia (AP) — Thousands of mourners flocked to funerals Thursday in North Macedonia for the dozens of ...

Prologue An Orphic hymn says that Kypris, Aphrodite of Cyprus, was the “scheming mother of necessity.” She controlled and ...

The recent trends of religious conversion have not rattled Kosovo’s politicians. Kosovo has been long seeking membership into the European Union, selling itself to the world as a multi-ethnic and ...

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 fall of ...

The Lemberger Congregation Anshei Ashkenaz, converted into a church around 1970, is one of the last remaining tenement synagogue buildings in the neighborhood.

Mumbai, Mar 7 (PTI) A minor fire broke out on a wall at a platform of Churchgate railway station in south Mumbai on Friday night due to a short circuit, officials said. The blaze erupted on platform ...

In the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, churches have been forced to become safe havens for M23 rebels, a Tutsi-led paramilitary group that continues to target Christian civilians ...

Eastern and Western churches use different days to mark the start of Lent, however. In the west, Ash Wednesday opens the holiday. In Eastern Orthodox churches, Lent begins on the Monday seven ...

The Church rejected the Jewish calendar, choosing to celebrate Easter separately from Passover. Sunday worship was enforced instead of the Jewish Sabbath. The Rise of the Eastern Orthodox ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A fire is reported to have broken out at a Norfolk church over the weekend.

The top figure in Eastern Orthodox Christianity ... Most Ukrainians identify as Orthodox Christians, though the country remains split between an independent church based in Kyiv and another ...