OT 434-435; JBC, p. 517] Now the Catholic Church is not alone in accepting the Books which Protestants label as "Apocrypha." The Coptic, Greek and Russian Orthodox churches also recognize these ...

Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, talks with OSV News during his 2025 visit to the U.S. from Ukraine.

The Nirvana song Polly is based on real events. Kurt Cobain wrote it after a 14-year-old girl from Tacoma, Washington, was kidnapped, raped, and tortured by Gerald Friend in 1987. She managed to ...

A senior Ukrainian Orthodox Church official recently warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin thinks the Kremlin is in a 'holy war' with the West.

Church bells around the world will toll in unison Sunday to mark the third anniversary of the Ukraine-Russia war. Among those church bells chiming: the bells of St. Peter and St. Paul Ukrainian ...

Bill proponents argue it would prevent extremism, while critics say it could worsen tensions between ethnic Estonians and ...

Vladimir Putin accused Jews of attacking the Russian Orthodox Church and suggested that they lacked family and “roots,” the latest antisemitic statement from the Russian leader since his 2022 ...

But Catholic clergy in the country say that sustaining that hope is not easy, even as Ukraine’s recent history points to a ...

Originally conceived in the mid-1800s to honor Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich (who died in Nice), the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral ... population. The church's onion domes, bright ...

A Ukrainian air force jet tossed four precision bombs at a platoon from the Russian army’s 60th Motor Rifle Brigade sheltering in Elizavetovka, a village on the Russian side of the border in ...