“What makes an Orthodox Christian Orthodox is that they follow ... it should not be interpreted as a statement that now the door is open for women everywhere. Are they supposed to be deacons ...

Religion publishers are offering women authors’ fresh interpretations of sacred texts as well as stories from the lives of ...

Women in the Orthodox Church Brief Comments from a Spiritual Perspective The commemoration day of St. Mary Magdalene brings to mind in general the role of women in the Orthodox Church. Orthodoxy has a ...

and missionary churches have adopted local customs and aesthetics with an ease that has eluded Orthodox Christian communities ...

The earliest Christian communities met in ... from about the second century on. Where women distinguished themselves in the orthodox community were as martyrs.... And there are famous women ...

The Russian Orthodox Church has expressed its opposition to the celebration of International Women’s Day on March 8, with ...

As we preach today on the Sunday of the Holy Myrrhbearing women, let not forget that all of you--Orthodox Christian women and your daughters--are called to be the Holy Myrrhbearing women of the ...

(JTA) — Orthodox women activists are pledging to withhold sex from their husbands as they escalate a public campaign to help one of their own obtain a religious divorce from her husband after ...

If I entered on the women’s side, where I know I belong ... By 1975, back in New York, I became immersed in the Orthodox Jewish religious world. I went by my Hebrew name, Yaakov, and was ...