The first 50 ultra-Orthodox soldiers were drafted for regular service in the Israel Defense Forces’ new Haredi brigade, known as the Hasmonean Brigade, the military said on Sunday. The ...

The Israeli military has enlisted the first batch of about 50 recruits into its new ultra-Orthodox brigade after a controversial decision to end their decades-long exemption from service.

Priests are now planning to open new parishes to accommodate the “tsunami” of young men who have converted since the pandemic. They say that most of the new converts found the Orthodox church ...

Seraphim Holland, a priest at the St Nicholas Orthodox Church in McKinney, Texas, has witnessed a surge of converts in recent years - James Breeden/Breeden Media LLC ...

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They say that most of the new converts found the Orthodox church by watching YouTube videos or listening to podcasts. Matthew Ryan, a former atheist, found Orthodoxy after he saw a comment about good ...

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At least 15 people died in the attack. transcript At least 15 people were killed in the early hours of New Year’s Day when a man plowed a truck into crowds on Bourbon Street. “Today ...

The music year generally lasts from January through November, with December given over to sifting through and ranking albums from the previous 11 months. While it’s always fun remembering ...

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He was previously a foreign correspondent for The New York Times and The Times of London. He reported from the Balkans, Iraq, India, Afghanistan, New York and the UK. He is co-author of the book ...

Countries belonging to the Eastern Orthodox Church did not readily adopt the Gregorian calendar either. It is also quite clear, on a historical level, that Catholic Europe celebrated New Year’s ...