BUCHAREST, Romania – The Romanian Orthodox Church says it is considering a Romanian monk persecuted by the communists and known as the "saint of Transylvania" for sainthood. The Metropolitan of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, center left, and Patriarch Filaret, head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev ...

A picture taken on June 24 in Bucharest shows a computer displaying a home page of the web site called "Funerar TV". The Romanian Orthodox Church, known as a bastion of conservatism, has broken a ...

The head of the Romanian Orthodox Church, who made history when he invited the late John Paul II to his Orthodox country in 1999 but was criticized for being too close to former Communists, died ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio --A three-day celebration honoring the Romanian Orthodox archbishop of North America for his 30 years of service will begin Friday in Cleveland. Archbishop Nathaniel Popp will be among ...

SHELTON — One vacant church in downtown Shelton is coming back to life. The church plans to hold its first service Sunday. “This is the end of a journey ... now we have a home of our own,” said Ionel ...

Romania's Orthodox Church says it will keep welcoming priests bolting from Moldova's Russian-linked Orthodox Church to join a growing rival body subordinate to Bucharest as it believes the ex-Soviet ...

BUCHAREST, Romania — Thousands of pilgrims turned out Sunday in Romania’s capital for the consecration of religious paintings inside the world’s largest Christian Orthodox church that was being opened ...