Here, in Romanian, an Orthodox bishop chants the epiclesis, the part of the liturgy in which the priest calls down the Holy Spirit to transform the bread and the wine.

St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco Russian Orthodox Mission Church will celebrate the Nativity of Christ this weekend. There will be Christmas Eve and Christmas (Nativity) services at Russian ...

A suicide bomber in Syria opened fire then detonated an explosive vest inside a Greek Orthodox church filled with people praying on Sunday, killing at least 22 and wounding 63 others, state media ...

The head of the Coptic Church is scheduled to offer the Orthodox Divine Liturgy in the Catholic Archbasilica of St. John Lateran in Rome on May 14. According to Father Martin Browne, an official ...

Jan. 9: Holy Protomartyr and Archdeacon Stephen (third day of the Nativity); Divine Liturgy, 8 a.m. Carolers will visit homes of parishioners following the open house Jan. 8 by request only.

Following the old Julian calendar, the Russian Orthodox celebrates the Nativity of Christ Jan. 6-7. A few dozen congregants celebrated with a Holy Supper on Friday to cap 40 days of fasting ...

A suicide bomber in Syria opened fire then detonated an explosive vest inside a Greek Orthodox church filled with people praying on Sunday, killing at least 20 and wounding 52 others.

State media says a suicide bomber in Syria has detonated himself inside a church filled with people, killing at least 22. The explosion in Dweil’a in the outskirts of Damascus took place Sunday ...

DWEIL’A, Syria (AP) — A suicide bomber in Syria opened fire then detonated an explosive vest inside a Greek Orthodox church filled with people praying on Sunday, killing at least 20 and ...