Orthodox priests sing and pray during a mass for the 'sanctification of honey' around honey jars with candles arranged in ...

Bulgarian parliament recognized Bulgarian Orthodox Church as the sole representative of Eastern Orthodox Christianity in the country, after a new bill adopted by the parliament. The bill was ...

The governing body of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, the Holy Synod, unanimously elected on February 9 Branitsa Bishop Pahomiy as the new Metropolitan of Vidin. The 14 to zero vote means that Pahomiy, ...

In a secret ballot vote in the Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s diocese of Vidin on February 2, two bishops were shortlisted to be the next Metropolitan and thus a member of the church’s governing body.

An Orthodox priest speaks during a mass for the 'sanctification of honey', at the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin church ...

and is being implemented in cooperation with the Eastern Orthodox Diocese of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church (BOC) in Western and Central Europe. Bridge of Faith will be released on the last Friday of ...

Russia is plagued by widespread occult practices, Fr. Andrey Tkachev, an archpriest of the Russian Orthodox Church, has warned, describing it as a serious moral threat to the country. In the latest ...

All the rites in use today evolved from the liturgical practices and ecclesiastical ... if not identical to the liturgy used by the Orthodox churches. After the schism between the churches in ...

On January 17, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church honors St. Anthony the Great, a revered figure known for his ascetic life. According to his life story, he spent 20 years in solitude in a desert building ...

More important was the anger generated by the 2019 Law on Religious Freedoms, which the Serbian Orthodox Church said threatened ... to expose corrupt practices.” In response to criticism about ...