The worldwide expansion of Christianity over the past century is a tide that has lifted virtually all denominations—with one apparent exception. A hundred years ago, any account of the Christian world ...

Orthodox Christmas explained: why millions celebrate on January 7, calendar differences, traditions, fasting, and global ...

Three monks belonging to Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church were killed in an attack on Tuesday at a monastery in South Africa. The attack occurred at the Saint Mark the Apostle and Saint Samuel the ...

(RNS) — When the ordination of Angelic Molen of Harare, Zimbabwe, as a deaconess by Metropolitan Seraphim, the Greek Orthodox archbishop of the south African country, was announced in a press release ...

On May 2, the Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and all of Africa ordained in Zimbabwe the first deaconess of any patriarchate in the global Eastern Orthodox Church, marking the culmination of years ...

South Africa’s Orthodox Rabbis were expected today to cancel a boycott of Reform rabbis and thus end a sharp dispute within South African Jewry which became so heated that the general press carried ...

In a first for the global Orthodox Church, the Greek Orthodox Church in Africa has backed the ordination of a female deaconess by the Archbishop of Zimbabwe to serve the Church's growing mission in ...

Traditionally Christmas falls on the 25th of December and the last day of the festival is observed on January 5th of the succeeding month/year. However, Orthodox christians especially in Europe, the ...

(RNS) — Sanctions that have threatened the Russian economy, experts say, could also put the brakes on any expansion by the Russian church. (RNS) — While the world’s attention is focused on the ...

Israel Chief Rabbi Dr. Isaac Halevi Herzog today opened the first national conference here of the Orthodox Jewish organizations of South Africa. Addressing a press conference earlier, Dr. Herog said: ...

FILE In this file photo taken on Saturday, July 28, 2018, Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill, right, Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, and Eastern Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria and ...

A branch of Ukraine’s Orthodox church has announced that it will allow its churches to celebrate Christmas on December 25, rather than January 7, as is traditional in Orthodox congregations. The ...