Orthodox Church News

In February 2012, a group from the feminist art collective Pussy Riot entered Moscow's revered seat of Russian Orthodoxy, Christ the Saviour Cathedral, wearing their trademark colorful balaclavas and belted out a noisy 40-second song called a "punk prayer protest" near the altar.

After performing in nearly 1,500 scenes with over 1,400 women and having won three AVN Awards I am more-than-qualified to speak on this matter.

CBSNews reports that legendary star of stage and screen, Barbra Streisand , voiced her opinion on the current state of women in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community in Israel.

GLEN GARDNER - A momentous occasion took place in Northern Hunterdon County on Sunday, June 2, the consecration of the altar and church building of St Gregory Palamas Orthodox Church in Glen Gardner.

On June 9, 2013, tens of thousands of Orthodox Jews assembled on the streets of New York City to protest against the existence of the State of Israel, and to condemn it's current "evil decree" to draft yeshiva students.

'Though raised in a religious family, I threw off the old faith when I started to live my own life, as did so many men of my age," the 21-year-old Sergei Diaghilev wrote to Leo Tolstoy in 1893.

A man who was an altar boy years ago testified Monday that a cleric in the Orthodox Church in America exposed himself and asked to be touched sexually in the small house attached to his church.

Greek for "Holy Wisdom" - was for some thousand years Christianity's greatest cathedral.

French and U.S. experts are continuing their search for the 17th-century ship Griffin, which they believe sank in northern Lake Michigan in 1679.

Melkite Catholic Patriarch Gregory III Laham speaks during a conference in Aley, Monday, June 17, 2013.

The plans of a former Microsoft manager to create the "Starbucks of Pot" are worrying other activists who pushed for the legalization of marijuana in Washington state.

Judaism has a long, rich history of bitter, no-holds barred infighting, particularly among rabbis.

MOSCOW, June 17 About 64 percent of Russians identify themselves as belonging to the Russian Orthodox Church, but many of them have never read the Bible and rarely go to church or pray, a recent poll showed.

As two new books detail, Israel's ultra-Orthodox community has formed a partisan bloc able to manipulate the country's political system even as it makes little effort to hide its contempt for secular democracy.

Entertainment star Barbra Streisand waded into one of Israel's touchiest issues Monday on the first major stop of her tour of the country - Jewish religious practices that separate men and women.

The head of the Ulema Council of the Russian Council of Muftis, talks about the tensions between Muslims and Orthodox, Wahabi propaganda and problems with Muslim migrants in Tatarstan.

Koutloumousiou monastery is an Eastern Orthodox monastery at the monastic state of Mount Athos in Greece.

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America have launched Faithandsafety.org, a website designed to help parents in guiding their children in the use of social media.

Found at the root of a tree in 1298, a revered religious icon with a long and colourful history will make its first-ever local appearance.

An opposition candidate for mayor of Bet Shemesh has accused incumbent Moshe Abutbol of sending municipal workers to remove his campaign signs in locations throughout the city.