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 ...

A senior Ukrainian Orthodox Church official recently warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin thinks the Kremlin is in a 'holy war' with the West.

Archaeologists have discovered an ancient Greek building and courtyard on Failaka Island, Kuwait, offering insights into ...

Russian attacks destroyed a local architectural monument – the wooden Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the occupied village of Andriivka, Volnovakha district, Donetsk Oblast.

The little-known ancient Greek city of Europos has started to unveil its secrets in a new wave of excavations that started in ...

Church bells around the world will toll in unison Sunday to mark the third anniversary of the Ukraine-Russia war. Among those church bells chiming: the bells of St. Peter and St. Paul Ukrainian ...

Russia’s war against Ukraine has a significant religious dimension. The Kremlin relies heavily on the Moscow Patriarchate to ...

Next week will mark three years since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. A Center City cathedral observed the ...

Feb 16 (Reuters) - Russian drone strikes have damaged a thermal power plant in Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine overnight, leaving at least 100,000 people without heating as temperatures plunge below ...

Last year, the Head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk accused Russia of “diabolical tactics — to destroy not only human life, but also those who serve ...

Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, talks with OSV News during his 2025 visit to the U.S. from Ukraine.