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 ...

Icon of Saint Patrick, patron saint of Ireland. Public Domain St. Patrick’s Day may be widely associated with Roman Catholic traditions, but a Greek Orthodox church in Grevena, northern Greece, has ...

The discord between the two factions within the Malankara Church appears to be widening with the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church coming out against a call by the Jacobite faction for coexistence ...

But that wasn’t the strangest thing that happened that day at Saints Peter & Paul Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church, a 70-year-old congregation that for nearly three years has been mired in ...

Vladimir Putin accused Jews of attacking the Russian Orthodox Church and suggested that they lacked family and “roots,” the latest antisemitic statement from the Russian leader since his 2022 ...

On Friday, the Greek Orthodox Church called for an emergency meeting to discuss a major reform to be launched. The move comes after the Church was rocked by overwhelming scandals on sex and finance ...

ALLENTOWN, Pa. - People gathered inside a Ukrainian Orthodox church in Allentown to commemorate the three-year anniversary of the war. People came together in a "prayer of union" at the cathedral ...

File photo. Credit: Thomas Schmidt, CC BY-SA 4.0/Wikipedia Former Greek-American CIA officer John Kiriakou has retracted his earlier claim that the U.S. paid the Ecumenical Patriarchate in ...

Funeral services are being held Thursday across North Macedonia for dozens of victims of last weekend’s devastating nightclub fire, as grieving communities gather ...

The Orthodox church in Kocani was too small to host all those who wanted to attend an afternoon sermon dedicated to the victims of Sunday's nightclub fire tragedy, which killed 59 people, mostly young ...