The first 50 ultra-Orthodox soldiers were drafted for regular service in the Israel Defense Forces’ new Haredi brigade, known as the Hasmonean Brigade, the military said on Sunday. The ...

The Israeli military has enlisted the first batch of about 50 recruits into its new ultra-Orthodox brigade after a controversial decision to end their decades-long exemption from service.

Seraphim Holland, a priest at the St Nicholas Orthodox Church in McKinney, Texas, has witnessed a surge of converts in recent years - James Breeden/Breeden Media LLC ...

Young, single men are flocking to the Orthodox church after discovering the “masculine” Christian religion through online influencers. Some converts said they felt disillusioned with the ...

The Ethiopian Geological Institute posted a video on its Facebook page showing what appeared to be dust and smoke emerging from a volcano in Awash Fentale in Afar region. Fana Broadcasting, citing a ...

Ethiopian Muslim students in the town of Axum in the state of Tigray are protesting a ban on wearing niqab in schools in the region, APA can report on Monday. A similar ban on niqab had been imposed ...

But the faithful of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church say there's no mystery really. The churches of Lalibela were built by angels. The northern highlands of Ethiopia rose 31 million years ago when ...

They enlisted a London-based lawyer who specializes in recovering looted art and Ethiopian officials who, along with the family, insist the medal belongs in their home country. “We were enraged ...

Agus, who died this month in Manhattan at 75, was an early advocate of Orthodox feminism, a prominent advocate for Soviet Jewry and a founding member of Minyan M’at, an egalitarian service that ...

Pastor Caroline Omolo.Credit...Kang-Chun Cheng for The New York Times Supported by By Sarah Hurtes Reporting from Nairobi For nearly a decade, Kenya’s only church led and attended by L.G.B.T.Q ...

At least 30 members of the Somali regional police force and 53 civilians have been killed by an armed group that crossed into Ethiopian territory, Harshin Woreda, from Somaliland over the past week.

Saint Basil’s church is uniquely positioned inside the Northbrook Shopping Center. It’s not in Rome or set in a cathedral, but the services at St. Basil the Great Orthodox Church are steeped ...