“His focus on the Holy Spirit impressed me, and his style is close to the evangelical heart,” said Haidostian. “I want that spirit in our churches.” Merhej won trust with clergy by ...

Hope in Christ and that God's truth will prevail amid Russia's war on Ukraine was the message that Major Archbishop ...

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 ...

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.

As President Donald Trump's administration works toward a diplomatic end to the war in Ukraine, the leaders of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) are warning that Vladimir Putin's Russia ...

Iryna Levytska holds a flag during the service. People gather Sunday, Feb. 25, 2024, at St. Mary’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church ...

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

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 ...

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 ...