The Orthodox Church in America counts nearly 90 churches across Alaska, and congregations here, and in Canada and 14 other countries, celebrate Christmas on Jan. 7, a practice harkening back to the church’s beginnings. The church in these regions follows a modified Julian calendar.
Unlike other churches in the West Bank, which are mostly attended by Palestinian Christians and have often overtly criticised Israel’s occupation of the territory, Eliseev takes an apolitical line.
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The Romanian Orthodox Church says it supports an initiative to change Romania's constitution to specify that marriage is between a man and a woman
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The Anglican leader Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said the agreed date for Easter would be either the second or third Sunday of April.
A day after assuming office, Georgia’s new prime minister gave the Orthodox Church half a million laris from the government’s emergency reserve fund, it emerged on Friday.