Critics say Kyiv is attacking religious freedom in its efforts to break the Ukrainian Orthodox Church’s ties with Moscow.

The hierarchs attended four sessions promoting information and discussion of global, ecclesial affairs in Eastern Orthodox Christianity. His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America briefly ...

The Holy Synaxis of the Hierarchy was officially opened at the Inaugural ... presentations from hierarchs on topics of critical importance to the global Eastern Orthodox Church, including ...

Orthodoxy in Russia is increasingly characterised as a separate religion, which retains the formal aspect of Slavic-Eastern ...

Assyrians attend a Palm Sunday mass at the Virgin Mary Syriac Orthodox ... inter-faith hierarchy of the Ottoman states. Just as then, Damascus has again caught the attention of Christians worldwide ...

It could be argued that the war in Syria brought to the foreground the persecution of Eastern Christianity ... The Russian Orthodox Church had blessed the Russian intervention in Syria as being ...

SEX is perhaps the last thing that you would expect Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch to want to write about, especially in ...

Although the particular churches possess their own hierarchy, differ in liturgical ... shepherd of the rites of the West and the East. The eastern rites which have a separate code of canon law ...

Moreover, both the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Rite Catholic churches allow married clergy ... from the more commodious practice of the early hierarchy. But—a further surprise for my audience ...

The Latin Catholic Church, the Russian Greek Catholic Church and 22 other Eastern Catholic churches — each self-governing with their own hierarchy ... Father Dennis Smith was raised Greek Orthodox in ...

Wojtyla ascended rapidly through the Catholic hierarchy after this ... sought reconciliation with various branches of Christianity, including the eastern Orthodox and Anglican churches. However the ...