The congregation and clergy of the Holy Dormition parish in Oleksandrivka, Odesa Oblast, has decided to break ties with the Russian Orthodox Church and transfer under the jurisdiction of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU). The transition was announced by the Odesa eparchy of the OCU on Jan. 23. Read also: Ukrainians nationwide will mark […]
Ethiopia’s Orthodox Church faced a crisis in 2023 when a group of rebel archbishops created a dissident synod. The rift was eventually resolved but disinformation linked to the incident continues to circulate online. In one recent example, the church’s general secretary was accused of fleeing to the United States for ethnic defamation and “instigating conflicts”, […]
YERUCHAM, Israel — Peering over tightly packed rows of books in the great hall of the white-brick seminary, the students pause their study of the Torah and Talmud each day for afternoon prayers, chanting the same words that Jews have been recited for centuries. But these days, as the young men rock back and forth […]
Christmas is under way for Christians following Orthodox traditions. In Ethiopia, crowds gathered to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ while Egypt’s Coptic Christians also went to church to mark the feast day. Egypt borders Gaza, which has been the scene of fighting since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 2023. Ethiopian pilgrims […]
The Russian Orthodox Church reaffirmed its strict opposition to abortion this week, putting it at odds with the Kremlin’s more relaxed position. A spokesperson for the church released a statement on Wednesday clarifying that the Holy Synod — the church’s governing body chaired by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow — condemns all elective abortion as murder. […]