An Orthodox cathedral in Kyiv is hosting its Christmas Eve service today (24 December), after a decree passed earlier this year meaning Ukraine no longer has to celebrate on the same day as the ...

Watch live as Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the world's Eastern Orthodox Christians, leads the Easter Sunday liturgy in Istanbul, Turkey.

Watch live as ultra-Orthodox Jews protest at the entrance to Jerusalem against the army draft, while police close surrounding roads. A decades-old arrangement by Israel’s first prime minister granted ...