Christian Orthodoxy

Ultra-Orthodox protest military draft in Israel

2013-05-16 13:21:00

JERUSALEM -- Thousands of young ultra-Orthodox men protested Thursday night against a government proposal to, for the first time, draft them into the military. More than 20,000 protesters gathered at an Israel Defense Forces recruiting office in an...

Women's prayer at Western Wall sparks protest

2013-05-10 03:24:00

JERUSALEM -- Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews flooded into the Old City’s Western Wall Plaza early Friday in a boisterous and sometimes violent protest against a group of female activists exercising a newly court-affirmed right to pray at the holy...

Pictures in the News | May 6, 2013

2013-05-06 09:12:58

Pictures in the News | May 3, 2013

2013-05-03 09:53:54

Muslim clerics in Syria urge release of kidnapped bishops

2013-04-26 16:35:00

BEIRUT — In a strong message of solidarity, Muslim clerics across Damascus on Friday denounced the kidnapping earlier this week of a pair of Syrian Christian bishops abducted at gunpoint. Imams and preachers at mosques throughout the Syrian...

Five women detained in Israel over prayer shawls at Western Wall

2013-04-11 12:45:00

Israeli police detained five women for wearing prayer shawls at the Western Wall on Thursday, days after a new proposal emerged to set aside part of the holy site for men and women to pray together. Female worshippers at the sacred site are barred...

Egypt's Coptic Christians live in fear of Islamic extremists

2013-04-12 16:53:00

CAIRO — The Mass was celebrated as if from centuries past: A bearded priest veiled in incense chanted for grace in a church along the Nile, near the spot where Christians believe Jesus and his mother sought refuge in an earlier age of bloodshed...

Don't play into a paranoid conservative narrative

2013-04-09 12:17:00

Are Roman Catholics, evangelical Christians and “ultra-Orthodox” Jews religious extremists comparable to the Ku Klux Klan and Al Qaeda? Yes, according to a PowerPoint slide that was apparently used by the U.S. Army Reserve in a training...

Rebecca Miller keeps her eye on the fly

2013-02-28 16:30:00

In "Jacob's Folly," Rebecca Miller has landed on a narrative voice that's antique, droll, racy and occasionally cutting — imagine an 18th century French rake being played by David Niven. But instead of putting an elegant, handsome man behind that...

Balancing needs of women, ultra-Orthodox men in Israel's military

2013-03-29 18:40:00

TEL AVIV — Israel's highest-ranking female soldier says efforts to draft male ultra-Orthodox students into the Israel Defense Forces should not come at the expense of women's advancement in the army. Last year, the nation's Supreme Court...

Cyprus scrambles to put together bailout package

2013-03-22 10:57:00

ATHENS -- Racing against time and short on choices, Cyprus on Friday moved to vote on yet another bailout formula its government cobbled together to secure a $13-billion international lifeline that will keep its weak banks afloat and avert a devastating...

Man freed after 23 years in prison, cleared of killing N.Y. rabbi

2013-03-21 15:27:00

After more than two decades in prison, David Ranta walked out of a Brooklyn courtroom a free man Thursday, no longer charged with murdering a rabbi in one of the city’s more well-known homicides. �“To say I'm sorry for what you've endured...

Israeli riot police arrest an ultra-Orthodox demonstrator on May 16, 2013 in Jerusalem, Israel. Tens of Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Israelis have clashed with police after gathering to protest against newly proposed government legislation that would see them drafted into the military.

2013-05-16 00:00:00

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - MAY 10: Ultra Orthodox Jewish girls pray before members of the religious group 'Women Of The Wall' hold a prayer service to mark the first day of the Jewish month of Sivan at the Western Wall on May 10, 2013 in Jerusalem, Israel.

2013-05-10 03:31:00

Macedonian Orthodox light up their candles from the holy fire that arrived from Jerusalem during the Easter service at the Saint-Jovan Bigorski monastery some 145 km west from the capital Skopje. The Macedonian Orthodox Church celebrated Easter, according to the Julian calendar.

2013-05-05 00:00:00