It's Christmas this week for tens of millions of Orthodox Christians around the world, who celebrate the holiday in January. In Lebanon, NPR's Emily Feng tells us the celebrations take on special ...

(RNS) — When the ordination of Angelic Molen of Harare, Zimbabwe, as a deaconess by Metropolitan Seraphim, the Greek Orthodox archbishop of the south African country, was announced in a press release ...

Yom Kippur is observed for a 25-hour period, beginning at sundown tonight, when Jews refrain from work that is prohibited on Shabbat plus eating or drinking, bathing, anointing the body with oil, ...

A small but growing group of queer Jews are adapting the the laws of family purity for their own marriages. (JTA) — Like many observant Jewish women, Sandy Tapnack visits the mikvah at the end of her ...