It begins with a little-known fact. There was a time when there were not three paragraphs in the prayer we call the Shema, ...

The custom of including the Ten Commandments as part of the Shema was once widespread, but from a certain point in time it was systematically opposed by the Sages. Why did they object to it?

For three weeks in January, 25 seminarians and two leaders from The St. Paul Seminary in St. Paul traveled and prayed in the footsteps of the seminary’s patron saint in Greece and Turkey, experiencing ...

Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, talks with OSV News during his 2025 visit to the U.S. from Ukraine.

The head of the Russian Orthodox Church publicly ridiculed a priest for criticizing the church’s alignment with the Kremlin’s ...

On the basis of age-old custom, water is one of the signs that the Church often uses in blessing the faithful. Holy water reminds ... here may be used by the priest or deacon.

During a diocesan assembly of the Moscow Metropolis, a priest from Mozhaysk, Alexei Shlyapin, raised concerns about the ...

It was fitted with the Triveni Sangam water-carrying test tube at the centre and shells from Prayagraj at the sides. Many people are bringing home holy water and sand from Triveni Sangam ...

A 50-year-old Winnipeg man has been charged with assault with a weapon, possession of a weapon, and disturbing an assemblage of persons after disrupting a Feb. 9 evening Mass at Holy Ghost Parish ...

LUCKNOW, Feb 14 (Reuters) - More than 500 million people have taken a "holy dip" in sacred river waters in north India over the last four weeks as part of the Hindu Maha Kumbh festival ...

Vladimir Putin accused Jews of attacking the Russian Orthodox Church and suggested that they lacked family and “roots,” the latest antisemitic statement from the Russian leader since his 2022 ...

In Greece, Orthodox Easter is ... At midnight, a priest appears holding a lighted candle taper reciting the phrase “Avto to Fos”, which means “This is the light.” His candle, dubbed “the Holy candle”, ...