Orthodox Church News

Pope Benedict XVI sits during his visit to Patriarch Theophilos III at the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem on May 15, 2009 in the Old City of Jerusalem, Israel.

Russian Orthodox Priest Daniil Sysoyev was assassinated in his Moscow church by a masked gunman.

An ultra-orthodox Jewish man is detained by Israeli police and border policemen outside Intel 's office building, in Jerusalem , Saturday, Nov.

The Orthodox Church celebrates the Day of Archangel today. In this regard holy liturgies will be offered at churches.

Belgrade, Serbia, Nov 20, 2009 .- The 95-year old Patriarch Pavle was laid to rest today in Belgrade, Serbia, after having led the Serbian Orthodox Church through its revival after the fall of the iron curtain and the bloody conflicts in the Balkans during the 1990's. The Serbian police reported that over 600,000 people attended the funeral service ...

A group of 145 Roman Catholic, evangelical, and Orthodox Christian leaders will present a document today at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. today saying they are in solidarity against abortions and same-sex marriage.

A Russian Orthodox priest known for his missionary work among Muslims was gunned down in his Moscow church, Russian officials said Friday.

Moshe's little heart still beats for India Seema Sirohi 20 November 2009, 08:17am IST JERUSALEM: Moshe still thinks of Mumbai as home.

An unidentified gunman killed a well-known Russian Orthodox priest and wounded another clergyman in a church in southern Moscow.

The Greek Orthodox Church is urging Christians across Europe to unite in an appeal against a ban on crucifixes in classrooms in Italy.

Tens of thousand of people are lining Belgrade's streets for a funeral procession for Patriarch Pavle who died at the age of 95 after 19 years as the head of the Serbian Orthodox Church.

When Cody Vest settles into his pew at St. Michael Orthodox Church on Sunday mornings, he's surrounded by Greek, Russian, Romanian and Ethiopian families.

Intel Corp., about to operate on the Sabbath, has ringed its Jerusalem compound with barbed wire to keep out ultra-Orthodox Jewish protesters, an official said.

Bojana Barlovac 16 November 2009 The negotiation process has dramatically worsened during the last round of Athens-Skopje name talks in New York.

Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch Pavle, who called for peace and conciliation during the Balkan ethnic wars of the 1990s but failed to openly condemn extreme Serb nationalism, died Sunday.

PRISTINA Kosovo went to the polls Sunday for the first time since the ethnic Albanian majority declared independence from Serbia last year, amid a partial boycott by a divided Serbian community.

Patriarch Pavle, who led Serbia's Christian Orthodox Church through its post-Communist revival and the turbulent 1990s marked by ethnic conflicts in the Balkans, died Sunday.

The Archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Church, Ieronymos of Thebes and Livadia [church profile], has called an emergency meeting [BBC report] of the Holy Synod [church backgrounder] to discuss a plan to stop the ruling [JURIST report], which pertained specifically to the display of crucifixes in Italian schools, from setting a precedent throughout ...

The delegation also met with the Armenian community and Patriarch of Assyrian Orthodox Church, RA MFA press office reported.

More than a thousand devout Jews noisly protested in Jerusalem on Saturday against plans by computer chip maker Intel to operate on the Jewish day of rest.