Once a Muslim-majority nation, Kosovo is witnessing a quiet but growing movement of Albanians converting to Catholicism. Advocates of the shift argue they are reclaiming their ancestral faith, once ...

At the edge of the Polish border, the 12th-century Kalozha Belarusian Orthodox Church in Grodno overlooks the calm waters of the Neman River. This is where Father Georgij Roi ministered for ten ...

In the Latin Church, believers determine how they will observe Lent (fasting is prescribed on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday). In contrast, the dietary observances of Orthodox Great Lent ...

The recent trends of religious conversion have not rattled Kosovo’s politicians. Kosovo has been long seeking membership into the European Union, selling itself to the world as a multi-ethnic and ...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s Orthodox Church on Sunday elected Joan Pelushi as its new leader following the death in January of Archbishop Anastasios, who had revived the church after the fall of ...

Forgiveness Sunday, also known as Cheesefare Sunday, marks the final Sunday before the start of Great Lent in the Greek Orthodox Church. This day emphasizes the themes of Adam and Eve’s exile from ...

St. John Greek Orthodox Church on Glenwood Avenue in Boardman starts its fish fry — the “Seafood Fest” — this Friday. There are lots of options on the menu and lots of prep work happening ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Michelle Trachtenberg appears at the Critics’ Choice Television Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., on June ...

BELIZE CITY, Belize — On Tuesday, Belize said it was sending three men, including a leader of the Jewish sect Lev Tahor, back to Guatemala, after arresting them at the Central American countries ...

Known in Israel as “the Harvard of yeshivas,” Ponevezh sits perched on a hill above the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak. We stood at the back of its vast central study hall. Hundreds of white ...

Police in Bosnia's Brcko District arrest three suspected child traffickers after finding a number of children with foreign documents. Brcko Police. Photo illustration: Otisak.ba Police in Brcko ...

The aggression is not just a fight for territory, it is the destruction of shrines.” The appeal comes as Moldova's Orthodox Church, which boasts 90 per cent of the nation’s churchgoers amongst its ...