The Orthodox baptism rite includes a three-stage exorcism that is extremely detailed about the spiritual warfare that surrounds new Christians.

In 325, when the First Council of Nicaea took place, Christianity had only been legal for a dozen years. It was already “big” ...

Pope Leo XIV plans to pray at an Armenian Apostolic cathedral in Istanbul in a gesture supporting Christian unity and ...

A Republican congressman from South Carolina is facing backlash from his colleagues and some Orthodox Christian leaders after ...

Catholic and Orthodox Christians share the same prayer when making the sign of the cross, but they have distinct ways of ...

Believing in Russia does not automatically mean believing in God and religious dogmas, belonging to the Orthodox Church does not necessarily mean attending liturgical celebrations, and supporting &ldq ...

Russian courts have banned three more Baptist churches affiliated with the Council of Churches Baptists in the southern region of Krasnodar amid an ongoing crackdown on unregistered congregations ...

Swedish officials are raising the alarm over a Russian Orthodox church in Vasteras, located near a strategic airport. Security experts and city leaders suspect the parish may be used for ...

The spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox Christians, speaking Friday before a New York audience, defended his 2019 decision to recognize an independent church in Ukraine, and he denounced the Russian ...

Clergy inside St. Peter and St. Paul Russian Orthodox Church. Left to right: Archbishop John Garklavs (Chicago), an unknown man, and Fr. Hillary Madison, August 1968. Used with the permission of St.

VATICAN CITY - Pope Leo discussed the war in Ukraine on Saturday with Metropolitan Anthony, a senior cleric in the Russian Orthodox Church, in a possible effort to ease ties between the churches ...