VATICAN CITY (CNS) — To promote Christian unity, Catholics and Orthodox must hold firm to the faith handed down by the apostles and witness together to the Gospel as the good news humanity is seeking, ...

Fr. Michael Nicholai pauses to offer the shovel to another clergyman while uncovering the grave of Matushka Olga during the process of her exhumation in Kwethluk on Nov. 16, 2024. (Courtesy Katie ...

KWETHLUK — A procession of boats shot up the glassy Kuskokwim River on Thursday morning in low fog, passing fish camps, eroded banks and tangles of alder, ferrying pilgrims on their way to witness ...

Hundreds of people gathered in the Western Alaska village of Kwethluk on Saturday to witness the exhumation of Matushka Olga, who will become the first Yup’ik saint of the Russian Orthodox Church next ...

Members of a local church are asking for the public’s help to identify a suspect who broke into the house of worship and ...

A worker at an Orthodox seminary in Yonkers found a cache of “drugs” — but soon discovered the priceless objects were of a “holy” different nature. Drug-sniffing dogs swarmed St. Vladimir’s Orthodox ...

The relics were returned to St. Vladimir's Orthodox Seminary in Yonkers on Scarsdale Road, where a blessing ceremony was held. — Yonkers Police What began as a suspected drug discovery on church ...

KWETHLUK, Alaska (AP) — “St. Olga of Kwethluk, Matushka of All Alaska,” as she is officially known, was canonized on June 19 as the first female Orthodox saint from North America. Orthodoxy — the ...

Worshippers fill St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in Kwethluk, Alaska, on June 19, 2025, for the canonization ceremony of St. Olga, the first female Orthodox saint in ...