(RNS) Kyriaki Karidoyanes FitzGerald was an 18-year-old theology student when a priest at Hellenic College Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School in Brookline, Mass., thrust a book into her hands. To her ...

BROOKLINE, Mass. (RNS)— A consortium of Orthodox Christian scholars, clergy and lay supporters meeting this week outside Boston proposed guidelines for the church to revive the ancient practice of ...

THESSALONIKI, Greece – THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Police in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki said Monday they had arrested a Swiss national and a Greek Orthodox deacon for trafficking in what ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Jarrod Russell first visited an Orthodox Christian church about 20 years ago. For Russell, who was brought up in a Southern Baptist home, the worship service at Annunciation ...

A Vatican report on women deacons published last week said that women could not be admitted to the diaconate “understood as a ...

Michael Wilson sits in his cell at his rural Lawrence home on a recent day. Wilson spends time in the reconfigured shed, studying and contemplating his faith. The 55-year-old Lawrence man has ...

The opinion by the head of a commission charged with considering the question in effect states that the Catholic Church ...

TAMBOV, Russia (AP) — Sergei Baranov keeps his clerical robes hanging neatly in his closet, but he believes he will never again wear them inside a Russian Orthodox Church. Baranov, who had led a quiet ...

Police in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki say they have arrested a Swiss national and a Greek Orthodox deacon for trafficking in what they said were holy relics, the Associated Press reports.

TAMBOV, Russia (AP) – Sergei Baranov keeps his clerical robes hanging neatly in his closet, but he believes he will never again wear them inside a Russian Orthodox Church. Baranov, who had led a quiet ...