The Russian Orthodox Church has expanded with striking speed. It is more than just a turf battle over the hearts and minds of ...

The worldwide expansion of Christianity over the past century is a tide that has lifted virtually all denominations—with one apparent exception. A hundred years ago, any account of the Christian world ...

(RNS) — Sanctions that have threatened the Russian economy, experts say, could also put the brakes on any expansion by the Russian church. (RNS) — While the world’s attention is focused on the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Russian Orthodox Church's influence is growing in African countries, such as the Central African RepublicDW For the past three ...

In a first for the global Orthodox Church, the Greek Orthodox Church in Africa has backed the ordination of a female deaconess by the Archbishop of Zimbabwe to serve the Church's growing mission in ...

(RNS) — On Thursday (May 2), the Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and all of Africa ordained in Zimbabwe the first deaconess of any patriarchate in the global Eastern Orthodox Church, marking the ...

Beyond the search for a better life, evangelicals and Orthodox in Ethiopia increasingly share even more. April was a terrible month for Ethiopian migrants. Tescma Marcus and his brother Alex were ...

South Africa’s Orthodox Rabbis were expected today to cancel a boycott of Reform rabbis and thus end a sharp dispute within South African Jewry which became so heated that the general press carried ...

The Russian Orthodox Church’s influence is growing in African countries, such as the Central African Republic Image: DW For the past three years, believers in the Central African Republic have been ...