A surge of people converting to Orthodox Christianity is helping local parishes here buck the national trend of declining ...

But for almost half of U.S. Orthodox Christians, whose liturgy involves processions, incense, kissing icons ... Only 31% of Orthodox priests publicly encouraged parishioners to get vaccinated ...

Congregants prostrate themselves in reverence to God and bow when a priest walks among them swinging a censer burning incense ... is part of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Churches — one ...

a priest, or kesis, at DSK Mariam Church. “We believe in the Bible, but we also believe in the holy tradition and the two are not separate.” The Ethiopian Orthodox Church in D.C. serves not ...

Congregants prostrate themselves in reverence to God and bow when a priest walks among them swinging a censer burning incense.

But for almost half of U.S. Orthodox Christians, whose liturgy involves processions, incense, kissing icons ... Only 31% of Orthodox priests publicly encouraged parishioners to get vaccinated ...

A kesis or priest, waves a censer burning incense as he walks through rows of congregants at Re'ese Adbarat Debre Selam Kidist Mariam Church, an Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo church, in Washington, D.C.

A kesis or priest, waves a censer burning incense as he walks through rows of congregants at Re'ese Adbarat Debre Selam Kidist Mariam Church, an Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo church, in Washington ...

But for almost half of US Orthodox Christians, whose liturgy involves processions, incense, kissing icons and crosses ... Only 31 percent of Orthodox priests publicly encouraged parishioners to get ...