Three monks belonging to Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church were killed in an attack on Tuesday at a monastery in South Africa. The attack occurred at the Saint Mark the Apostle and Saint Samuel the ...

(RNS) — On Thursday (May 2), the Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and all of Africa ordained in Zimbabwe the first deaconess of any patriarchate in the global Eastern Orthodox Church, marking the ...

“In the whole history of the Orthodox Church in America, this has never been seen,” a priest said about the surge of young men drawn to the demanding practice of Christianity. “The Orthodox Church is ...

This circa 1975 photo provided by her family shows Olga Michael, an Alaskan Yup’ik woman who became St. Olga of Kwethluk, Matushka of All Alaska. (Martha Nicolai) KWETHLUK, Alaska — “St. Olga of ...

(RNS) — Bishop Shio Mujiri will now be known as Patriarch Shio III, leading the Georgian Orthodox Church, one of the most prominent institutions in the country. He was enthroned in the 1,000-year-old ...