Christians around the world observe Lent to varying degrees, but none with more zeal than the Eastern Orthodox, the vast branch of Christendom that split from the western Roman Catholic church a ...

In a "conservative" model, the current surge "levels off," resulting in 69% more members, which could lead to 1,385 new ...

Pope Leo XIV called on Christians to unite during his visit to Turkey, marking the 1700th anniversary of the Council of ...

“The Russian Orthodox Church doesn’t recognize those decisions and won’t fulfill them,” Archbishop Hilarion Alfeyev said in Belarus after a meeting of the synod of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev spoke with EWTN about the importance of the Eucharist at the 52nd International Eucharistic Congress in Budapest, Hungary, on Sept. 6. Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev ...

Speaking to the Synod on Synodality on Monday, an Eastern Orthodox bishop said the definition of synodality of the October assembly “differs greatly” from the Orthodox understanding. Metropolitan Job ...

The Eastern Orthodox patriarch of Constantinople has expressed a desire that Christians in the East and the West begin celebrating Easter on a “unified date” rather than adhere to separate Lenten ...

The Rev. Stevhen Supica, left, of Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in Spokane removes Christ’s body from the cross and prepares to wrap it in a white cloth during a reenactment of the burial of ...

On Thursday, the American pope began his four-day visit to Turkey, where he will meet the Patriarch Bartholomew I of ...