Most voters for Netanyahu’s Likud Party (56 percent) support a coalition with Orthodox parties, while 44 percent favor a secular coalition. Sixty-nine percent of respondents also said that ...

17), rival groups of Orthodox Christians clashed violently ... The UOC is still the largest religious group in the country and still has over 2,000 parishes more than the OCU.

In 2017, the Supreme Court ruled that the exemption was unconstitutional, and last year it ordered the military to conscript yeshiva students. Legal experts say the only way to restore the exemption ...

Two statements from Moscow last week revealed snags in the Kremlin’s efforts to use religion as a political opiate in other countries. After a 15-year struggle to dominate the Orthodox Church in ...

According to various estimates, there are 500,000 to 600,000 Orthodox believers, and over 320 churches scattered all across the country. Many Orthodox churches are priceless monuments ... and was ...

MOSCOW, October 17. /TASS/. The Orthodox Church of Ukraine seized the St. Michael's Cathedral in Cherkassy that belongs to the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the Union of Orthodox ...