The Latest Breaking News from the Orthodox Church

Archbishop Anastasios mourned in Tirana for his role in reviving Albania's Orthodox Church post-communism.

Archbishop Anastasios, the head of the Albanian Orthodox Church for three decades, has died aged 95 in an Athens hospital after being airlifted to the Greek capital following a virus infection.

Just days after grabbing the headlines by joining the BJP, Fr. Shaiju Kurien, secretary of the Nilackal diocese of the Orthodox Church, has been temporarily removed from his positions in the church pending further inquiry.

Attempts by the Bharatiya Janata Party to rebuild its ties with the Christian communities in Kerala ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections has received a major shot in the arm with 47 Christian families, led by a diocese secretary of the Orthodox church, joining the national party on Saturday.

Malankara Orthodox Church choir concert in Chennai on October 29

Russia's Foreign Ministry said late on Sunday that the U.S. was behind the pressure that Ukrainian authorities have been exerting on the Russian-aligned wing of the Orthodox Church in Kyiv.

Scuffles broke out outside a Kyiv monastery on Thursday after a Ukrainian branch of the Orthodox Church that the government says has ties with Russia defied an eviction order.

Hundreds of worshippers gathered at a Kyiv monastery on Wednesday for what could be the last service their branch of the Orthodox Church holds there because it faces eviction following allegations it has links to Moscow.

Eight bishops wearing robes and mitres went to the Ukrainian president's offices this week to try to stop their historically Russian-aligned wing of the Orthodox Church being evicted from its Kyiv headquarters.