There are an estimated 2,000 churches in New York, with dozens designated as cathedrals. Churches and cathedrals are classic ...

In Greece, Orthodox Easter is celebrated with an entire week of festivities – aptly titled The Holy Week – with Good Friday, Easter Sunday, and Easter Monday being celebrated as public holidays. The ...

In some faith traditions in the U.S., men make up a larger proportion of the membership. For example, in The Church of Jesus ...

Nepal exports more than 88 percent of its orthodox tea to India, leaving only a small fraction for third-country markets. A recent report highlights the need for market diversification to countries ...

Two small majority-Orthodox countries, Montenegro and Cyprus ... A 2016 statement by a council of most Orthodox churches called marriage between a man and a woman “the oldest institution ...

Standing next to Trump, Elpidophoros granted the president lofty praise and compared him with one of Orthodoxy’s most beloved ... of the largest Orthodox parishes in the country.

(RNS) — Orthodox Judaism ... which brought to power the most right-wing and religiously conservative government in the country’s history. One of the leaders of that movement, Mikhael Manekin ...

Like most ultra-Orthodox males, it was practically his ... he found a new path, fighting for his country. Chaim Krausz, second from left, who studies the Torah for 14 hours a day, at an ultra ...

All forms of religion were banned in Albania for 23 years starting in 1967, when the country was completely isolated from the outside world and the communists seized the property of Islamic, Orthodox, ...

According to the 2023 census, Orthodox Christians in Albania make up about 7% of the country’s 2.4 million population, although the church says the actual number is higher. Half the population ...