There are a number of firsts in Douglas Lorance’s life, but retirement is not one of them. Lorance was the first priest ...
Ukrainian Greek Catholic priests celebrating Sunday Mass in Lviv, in western Ukraine. AP Photo/Bernat Armangue Despite its relatively small size, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church has, in the words ...
When Tucker Carlson, a popular American right-wing conservative, released an interview with lawyer Robert Amsterdam titled “Ukrainian churches are being burned and priests beaten,” it quickly gained ...
A council of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) on Friday resolved on its “full self-sufficiency and independence,” distancing the Church from Russian Orthodoxy. The decision comes ...
SACRAMENTO -- As the conflict in Ukraine escalates, a local Ukrainian pastor says his congregation is feeling "pain, frustration, and uncertainty." Pastor Vadym Dashkevych with the Spring of Life ...
A second vote on the bill is necessary before being presented to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for final approval as a law. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) is part of the greater Eastern Orthodox ...
LVIV, Ukraine (RNS) — On a recent Sunday, Ukrainian Orthodox Abbott Job Olshansky faced 50 stoic parishioners and presented his case for why the community should switch to the Gregorian liturgical ...
The damaged entrance of the Orthodox Christian monastery in Sviatohirsk, in eastern Ukraine, in April. (yasuyoshi chiba/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images) The Ukrainian arm of the Russian Orthodox ...
GREECE, N.Y. As the war in Ukraine rages on, a former pastor from the Rochester area is doing his part to help rebuild many of the churches that have been leveled by Russian rockets over the past 14 ...
One generation of Soviet refugees is welcoming another. Sergei Karpenko’s Chicago church is now almost entirely made up of refugees from the Russian war against Ukraine. Many of them aren’t from a ...
On January 2, an Orthodox church in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, was covered in blood. In the morning, a man burst into the church and turned the crucifix over, broke several icons, threw banners on the floor, ...
Bishop Stanislav Szyrokoradiuk of Odesa-Simferopol said that people "who've taken power" in the U.S. aren't "interested in ...