It is a time for penance, reflection, fasting, and prayer. Greek Orthodox Christians worldwide observe a pre-Christmas preparation period. The Orthodox Church does not call it Advent. There is the ...

Authorities also discovered at least one skeleton of a minor. Lev Tahor is an ultra-orthodox organization, that moved to the village of El Amatillo in the southern department of Santa Rosa in 2016, ...

Rick Rosenthal, 72, who lives in Atlanta, is an Orthodox Jewish professional Santa who said it’s a “mitzvah” to bring joy to wide-eyed children. Courtesy Santa Rick Rosenthal His goal is ...

The authorities said at least 160 children and teenagers might have been the victims of human trafficking and other crimes on a farm run by Lev Tahor, an ultra-Orthodox sect. By Emiliano Rodrígue ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Share GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan authorities searched the compound of an extremist ultra-orthodox ...

Exhausted by more than 14 months of war, the wives and mothers of Israeli soldiers are uniting in protest against exemptions from conscription for ultra-Orthodox men. For several Saturday evenings ...

The largest Christian sect in the country is Eastern Orthodox Christians under the authority of the ancient Greek Orthodox patriarch of Antioch. These Antiochian Orthodox Christians have a small ...

Bais Yaakov is affiliated with the all-girls’ Bais Faiga School, an Orthodox Jewish school in neighboring Lakewood, the Asbury Park Press reported. Officials at the private school could not be ...

Two Greek Orthodox Christians in Wadi al-Nasara (Valley of the Christians) were murdered in their home during a reported "burglary." Samaan Satme and Helena Khashouf from the village al-Jamasliyye in ...

Former Sephardic chief rabbi Yitzhak Yosef caused a wave of outrage after saying Saturday night that even ultra-Orthodox men who are not studying in yeshiva should not be drafted into the Israel D ...