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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It is fitting that The African Orthodox Church, Inc. is celebrating its 100th anniversary during Black History Month. For it was because of the oppression of racism that the church was born on Sept. 2 ...