MINERSVILLE – Members of Eastern Rite Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches celebrated a major holy day Thursday as they observed the Feast of the Theophany of Our Lord. In St. Nicholas Ukrainian ...

For centuries, Christians have debated an important question. Can someone truly follow Jesus without baptism? Some churches teach that baptism is an essential act of obedience tied closely to ...

Last week a six-week-old baby died in Suceava, Romania during his baptism into the Romanian Orthodox Church. The priest is being held on manslaughter charges and a firestorm of anger has begun to be ...

Browler attends a Russian Orthodox baptism ceremony of a friends’ baby and shares his impressions: “All the children being baptised (there were about seven of them) got quite wet. The priest was ...

UNLIKE its western counterpart, eastern Christianity has always maintained close ties to the state. But the visit to Kyiv on July 27th of Patriarch Kirill I of the Russian Orthodox Church and Vladimir ...

Dead Sea, Jan. 16 (Petra)-- The Orthodox Church celebrated, on Friday, its yearly pilgrimage to Al-Maghtas, the site of Jesus Christ's baptism, which falls on the Feast of the Epiphany on the Jordan ...

Inaugurated recently in Jordan, the establishment is not just an academic initiative but a project that combines education, ...

MOSCOW, July 28. /TASS/. Russia and other countries where the majority of the population espouses Eastern Orthodox Christianity are marking the millennium since the passing away of St. Duke Vladimir, ...

Some churches say Baptism is optional, but the New Testament teaches it is integral to the life of faith. Movies and tv shows have probably included more scenes of baptism than any other distinctly ...

Believer’s baptism and baptismal regeneration represent two distinct views on the role of water baptism in salvation. Believer’s baptism holds that baptism is an outward, symbolic act of obedience ...