Q: If the church's new year begins on the first Sunday of Advent, then why is the secular New Year's Day (Jan. 1) a holy day ...

It's is now the third most popular religion in the US... and it's also attracting record numbers of young male Britons.

Pope Leo XIV meets with Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople in the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican May 30, 2025. The patriarch will host Pope Leo at several ...

“In the whole history of the Orthodox Church in America, this has never been seen,” a priest said about the surge of young men drawn to the demanding practice of Christianity. “The Orthodox Church is ...

CORRECTION: The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Porfirije, met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Patriarch Kirill in Moscow in April. An earlier version of this story included ...

Believing in Russia does not automatically mean believing in God and religious dogmas, belonging to the Orthodox Church does not necessarily mean attending liturgical celebrations, and supporting ...

More than 600 participants registered for the opening session of the 9th annual Discover Orthodoxy online catechism course, organised by the Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain. The session ...

The Holy Metropolis of Sweden and All Scandinavia, on the occasion of the beginning of the new ecclesiastical year, is pleased to announce the continuation of the adult catechism classes on the ...

A catechism is an instruction in the Christian Faith (according to the respective denomination), to be taught to every Christian, to enable him to please God and save their own soul. "Catechism" is a ...

. . . The Catechism reminds us that actively "feigned ignorance" and "hardness of heart" do not excuse or diminish "but rather increase the voluntary character of a ...

This is a series of brief devotional articles on The Orthodox Catechism (“OC”), a Particular Baptist document written by Baptist pastor Hercules Collins in 1680. Read the series. Jesus summed up the ...