Eastern Orthodox Christianity predates Protestantism by about 500 years. Their core beliefs are similar to those of Catholicism. In fact, the creeds of the two denominations are nearly identical.

Eastern Orthodox Churches are self-governing bodies of Christians adhering to a pure and unbroken line from the first days of the Apostles and the disciples of Jesus. Originally in communion with the ...

Students at St. Joseph School in Fayetteville witnessed something that not many Roman Catholics get a chance to see, ...

Orthodox priest Marko Males leads a mass on the eve of Orthodox Christmas ... in Bethlehem to celebrate Christmas according to the Eastern Orthodox calendar. Mussa Issa Qawasma / Reuters Crowds ...

WCC General Secretary Jerry Pillay claimed that the Moscow patriarch agreed that armed warfare cannot be "holy." ...

At this Orthodox church in Melbourne, bells rang for midnight mass, these Australian worshippers among some of the first in the world to mark Orthodox Easter. The Orthodox church celebrates the ...

Twenty delegates of the Anglican-Orthodox Theological Dialogue gathered at St. Demetrios Church in Weston, MA for worship on Sunday, October 6 th. His Eminence Metropolitan Athenagoras of Belgium ...

onion and spices filled the air of the Holy Spirit Orthodox Church on Thursday as members prepared the main dish for their annual Middle Eastern Dinner, set for Sunday, Oct. 27. People can buy ...

According to Catholic belief, the soul of the dead can go to either one of these three places. The first is heaven, where a ...

The standoff came after the first midnight Mass was held in the Ukrainian language by worshippers of the Orthodox Church of Ukrainian (OCU). But believers from the rival Ukrainian Orthodox Church ...

LUZERNE COUNTY, Pa. — A lot of prep work goes into making Middle Eastern delicacies like grapeleaves and baklava. Members of Saint Mary Antiochian Orthodox Church in Wilkes-Barre know exactly ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Speaking behind the thick white walls of Moscow's ancient Danilov Monastery, Archpriest Igor Yakimchuk is adamant: people must not be forbidden to pray in their chosen branch of ...