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 he accused Russia-aligned Orthodox churches of functioning as ...

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

In a Nov. 17 post on X, Wilson clarified his position, saying, “The Russian Orthodox Church is not a separate religious ...

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 ...

Timkat, celebrated each year in Ethiopia, marks the feast of Epiphany in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. It commemorates the baptism of Christ in the River Jordan by John the Baptist. Observed around ...

"I have never worked for any intelligence [agency], be it Russian or any other. I have never had any tasks or duties or requests on their part," says the former head of foreign relations of the ...

The head of the Russian Orthodox Church in Czechia, Metropolitan Hilarion, may be added to the national sanctions list, with the likely future prime minister, Andrej Babiš, saying he would back the ...