Wander the cobblestone streets of the old town and try khachapuri, a cheese-filled bread, or kharcho, a hearty beef and ...
Leonid Regheta, pastor of River of Life Church in Plano, spoke with The Dallas Morning News about his mission of keeping his ...
Former Greek-American CIA officer John Kiriakou has retracted his earlier claim that the U.S. paid the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople to grant autocephaly to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church ...
The last deaconess of the Armenian Church was Hripsime Sasunian, who died in 2007. A decade after her death, in 2017, ...
The Feb. 24 anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine was an opportunity to offer "ever more fervent prayers for peace," ...
At the start of the war, nearly 17 million Ukrainians fled the country, but fewer than 7 million remain abroad, Bloomberg reported. Among those who returned is Tatyana Pavlenko. She and her husband, ...
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said Friday that it had thwarted an alleged Ukrainian plot to assassinate a senior Russian Orthodox Church figure. Metropolitan Tikhon Shevkunov, 66, a member ...
The aggression is not just a fight for territory, it is the destruction of shrines.” The appeal comes as Moldova's Orthodox Church, which boasts 90 per cent of the nation’s churchgoers amongst its ...
He called the council three months later, and invited Protestant and Orthodox churches to send representatives. He also tasked the German Jesuit and Biblical scholar Augustin Bea with drafting a ...
A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from entering churches or targeting migrants nearby, a change in policy that religious groups fought as a ...
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew leads the official door-opening ceremony of lower Manhattan’s St ...
Once the largest Christian church for over a thousand years, Hagia Sophia was built under the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I. Over time, it has served as a Greek Orthodox cathedral, a Roman ...