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Photographs of Ukrainian soldiers killed during the Russian Ukrainian war are displayed in the Saints Peter and Paul church in Lviv, Ukraine, April 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Congress will decide if they help Ukraine fight a war on faith, freedom or not

By Sam Brownback – Special to Higher Ground

Members of the Saint Mark the Apostle and Saint Samuel the Confessor Monastery sit at the magistrate court in Cullinan, a town east of Pretoria, South Africa, Thursday, March 14, 2024. Two suspects appeared at the court for the murder of three Egyptian monks belonging to the Coptic Orthodox Church at a monastery in South Africa. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

2 men accused of murdering 3 Egyptian Coptic monks appear in a South African court

By Mogomotsi Magome - Associated Press

The Saint Mark the Apostle and Saint Samuel the Confessor Monastery in Cullinan, a town east of Pretoria, South Africa, Wednesday, March 13, 2024. Three Egyptian monks belonging to the Coptic Orthodox Church were fatally stabbed in an attack at a monastery in South Africa and a suspect has been arrested, police said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

3 Egyptian Coptic church monks are killed in an attack at a monastery in South Africa

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press

FILE - Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis talks to the photographers as he waits for his Bulgarian counterpart Nikolai Denkov at Maximos Mansion in Athens, Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024. Greece's center-right government will soon submit a draft law allowing same-sex civil marriages, despite reservations from its own lawmakers and the country's powerful church, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Wednesday, Jan. 10. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, File)

Greek prime minister says legislation allowing same-sex marriage will be presented soon

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In this Sunday, Aug. 22, 2021 file photo, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, leads a Mass at the St. Sofia Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine. Bartholomew has condemned Russia’s invasion in a phone call to the head of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, the independent Orthodox Times website has reported. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) **FILE**

Eastern Orthodox spiritual leader condemns Russian invasion

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

After 121 years, area’s first Orthodox church closes

By KAYLA DWYER and The (Allentown) Morning Call - Associated Press

In this Sunday, Aug. 18, 2013 photo, Father Reweis Khalil brings the bread (Body of Christ) to worshippers during Sunday service at St. George Coptic Orthodox Church in Hampton, VA., on Sunday, Aug. 18, 2013. Khalil was removed from the priesthood in July. Sally Zakhari has alleged, including in a police report and to Coptic Church officials, that Khalil has sexually abused her. Khalil has denied the allegations through his attorney. (The' N. Pham/The Virginian-Pilot via AP)

For Coptic Church, changes, questions after priest ouster

By MARIAM FAM - Associated Press

In this Aug. 9, 2019 photo, Metropolitan Tikhon presides over services during the 49th Annual St. Herman of Alaska Pilgrimage near Kodiak, Alaska. More than 100 pilgrims ventured to Monk's Lagoon on Spruce Island to mark the pilgrimage. (Iris Samuels/Kodiak Daily Mirror via AP)

Pilgrims travel from afar to celebrate St. Herman

By IRIS SAMUELS - Associated Press

European artists paint icons at Orthodox church in Loveland

By PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO - Associated Press

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, center left, and Patriarch Filaret, head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchate and clerics during their meeting in Kiev, Ukraine, Sunday, Oct. 21, 2018. The Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarchate says it will move forward with its decision to grant Ukrainian clerics independence from the Russian Orthodox Church. (Mikhail Palinchak, Presidential Press Service Pool Photo via AP)

Romanian church urges unity for Orthodox churches

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This Wednesday Oct. 3, 2018 photo shows Father Samuel Haddad at the St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in Beckley, W.Va. (Chris Jackson/The Register-Herald)

“A taste of the Kingdom”

By MICHELLE JAMES - Associated Press

In this July 15, 2017 photo, Father Girigis Ramandious performs a &quot;baby shower&quot; for 40-day-old Heaven Khalil at St. Mary's Catholic Church in York, Pa. Coptic baby boys are baptized when 40 days old while baby girls are baptized when 80 days old. About 60 Egyptian Coptic Christian families have moved to York County in recent years to escape religious persecution in Egypt, where Copts face systematic discrimination and experience attacks by Islamic extremists. (Chris Dunn/York Daily Record via AP)

Persecuted in Egypt, Christians aim for better life in York

By BRETT SHOLTIS and York Daily Record - Associated Press

‘Fasting, confession prayer:’ Orthodox churches fight drop

By STEPHEN HUBA and MICHAEL WALTON and Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Associated Press

An Orthodox church is silhouetted during sunset in the village of Mozoli, 30 miles northwest of the capital, Minsk, Belarus, Monday, March 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Orthodox Church started by the Apostle Paul in book of Acts

By Riley Manning - Associated Press

Ben Kinsey waves a flag from an I-20 overpass, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014, in North Augusta, South Carolina. Kinsey is a 14-year veteran of the USMC, USArmy and Georgia National Guard who felt compelled to stand in the heat and wave his flag after attending a 9/11 ceremony last year. This is the second year he has paid tribute to the first responders that gave their lives on 9/11/01 and wants to remind everyone of their sacrifices. He said it's easy tell when a veteran drives by, they give the flag a fast salute as they speed by. (AP Photo/The Augusta Chronicle, Todd Bennett)

Christian leaders prayerfully remember 9/11 at historic summit

By Matt Hadro - Catholic News Agency