Bishop Iyakov, who backs Russia's war on Ukraine, returned to the controversial cross he erected at the Norwegian archipelago ...

The first female Orthodox saint in North America was an Indigenous woman who spent her entire life with her Yup'ik family and ...

Even after Ukraine cut diplomatic ties with Russia in 2022, prisoner exchanges have continued as one of the few remaining ...

At least 20 people have been killed and dozens more wounded in a suicide bombing inside a church in Syria, according to the ...

The bodies of three Israeli hostages have been recovered from the Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.

There are long-term patterns in how Russia approaches Norway on Svalbard. Over the years, Moscow’s proposals for bilateral ...

Russia has handed Kyiv the bodies of its own soldiers mixed in with those of Ukrainian soldiers during recent repatriation of the fallen, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said on June 16. Klymenko's ...

But the politically powerful ultra-Orthodox, who make up roughly 13% of Israel's population, have traditionally received exemptions from the military while studying full-time in religious ...

The military has since attempted to increase call ups for ultra-Orthodox men, to little success. Out of 12,000 draft orders sent since the High Court ruling, only dozens of ultra-Orthodox have ...

Many fear that greater contact with secular society through the military will distance adherents from strict observance of the faith. The ultra-Orthodox are politically powerful. After years of legal ...