On Great and Holy Friday the Orthodox Church commemorates the death of Christ on the Cross. This is the culmination of the observance of His Passion by which our Lord suffered and died for our sins.

Orthodox priest Marko Males leads a mass on the eve of Orthodox Christmas in the Church of the Holy Mother of God in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina Mussa Issa Qawasma / Reuters Greek Orthodox ...

We also recognize the retirement of two Hierarchs of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese: His Eminence Metropolitan Isaiah who served the Denver Metropolis for decades, and Bishop Dimitrios of Mokissos. We ...

where President Vladimir Putin attended midnight mass in Moscow. In Jerusalem, at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which tradition holds as the site of Christ's resurrection, Orthodox believers ...

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Catholicos Garegin II warned against attempts to “battle” against the leadership of the Armenian Apostolic Church on Sunday ...

For example, Orthodox Christians allowed their clergy ... These disagreements typically revolve around the sacred tradition of mass, the holy orders and structural hierarchy of the Catholic ...

The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, praised the Russian invasion as part of a “holy war” and said Russian soldiers killed in the war would immediately go to heaven.

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Notably, the pope risked the ire of his own flock, which had backed the new law, in order to voice solidarity with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which traditionally has been part of the Moscow ...

The 19-year-old from an ultra-Orthodox family hoped to join an Air Force unit that loads munitions onto planes. At a military recruitment center a few miles away, Shlomo Roth, also 19 and ultra ...