In the 1950s, the future of American Orthodox Judaism looked so gloomy that the prominent sociologist Marshall Sklare predicted its imminent extinction. Sklare’s ominous forecast could not have proved ...

President Vladimir Putin’s decision to attack Ukraine has split the Orthodox Church. Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, a leading authority of the Eastern Orthodox Church, quickly condemned the ...

The Rev. Soterios Rousakis, presiding priest at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Jamestown, is pictured Friday morning leading children in worship. St. Nicholas is celebrating 100 years and ...

A survey of theology, history, and evangelical perspective of the Eastern and Oriental branches of the ancient tradition. Selected by Bradley Nassif, professor of biblical studies and ...

Commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ through ancient traditions, fasting, prayer, and midnight liturgies, rooted in the ...

Sally Swetzoff leans over a sewing machine in the dining room of the Bishop’s House, just across from Unalaska’s Front Beach. She’s hemming the curtains for the bedroom windows, and she’s on a tight ...

What is Orthodox Christmas? And why do millions of people celebrate it on January 7 - The ancient church in the Roman Empire ...

This story originally appeared on KYUK Public Media and is republished here with permission. The well-known Russian Orthodox missionary and scholar, Archpriest Michael James Oleksa, has died at the ...

JERUSALEM (RNS) — Over the years, many of the young Orthodox women studying at the Midreshet Lindenbaum seminary yearned to join a combat unit in the Israeli army but knew that staying religiously ...

During Sunday rites, worshippers in the Orthodox Church in America are led through a tour of the faith's music, with hymns from Russia, Romania, Georgia, Bulgaria and beyond. The faithful know many by ...

Fr. Michael James Oleksa is seen while giving an interview at St. Innocent Russian Orthodox Cathedral on July 5, 2021. (Simon Scionka/Sacred Alaska Film) The well-known Russian Orthodox missionary and ...