When Xenia Nikolskaya first went to Egypt in 2006, she thought she knew what she was looking for. Born and raised in the ...

The Coptic Orthodox Church announced the death of Bishop Pachomius, Archbishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church, Patriarchal Vicar, Metropolitan of Beheira, Matrouh, and the Western Pentapolis, and Abbot ...

Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church mourned on Sunday the passing of Metropolitan Elder and Acting Patriarch Pakhomious, who died at nearly 90 years old after a lifetime of devoted service to the ...

Rabbi Eliyahu Fink, a prominent and empathetic voice on contemporary issues facing Jews in the Orthodox world, died early Friday morning in a car accident on the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey.

The highest-ranking cleric of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (GOARCH) on Monday championed President Donald Trump's leadership and likened him to the Roman Emperor Constantine I. "Through ...

With the Muslim fasting season coinciding with Christian Lent this year, the usual contingent of Christian leaders was especially august on March 11, with Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III ...

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 ...

Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jews were once exempt from military service — but now they are being drafted. One of those new draftees, Yechiel Wais, was excited, hoping the military would help him ...