His Grace Zachariah Mar Nicholovos, the metropolitan, or head, of the Northeast American Diocese of the Indian Orthodox Church. NISKAYUNA — His Grace Zachariah Mar Nicholovos, the metropolitan, or ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The Feast of St. George was celebrated on May 13 with a religious street procession at the St. George Malankara Orthodox Church in Willowbrook. The solemn feast was the ...

Shaikh Nahyan highlighted the significance of hospitality and religious tolerance in the Islamic tradition and Arab culture in his address to the gathering at National Theatre Auditorium on Friday. He ...

Metropolitan His Grace Mathews Mar Barnabas stood barely 5 feet tall, but his stature and influence among his followers in the Indian Orthodox Church on Long Island and elsewhere was enormous, leaders ...

The first time the faithful congregants of St. Mary’s Orthodox Church of India gathered to worship, it was in the basement of a seminary in Manhattan. They were recent Indian immigrants, about 15 in ...

Bishop Thomas Mar Makarios, an international leader of the Orthodox Church of India, will be buried Monday in Kottayam, India. He died Feb. 23 in a Newcastle, England, hospital, seven weeks after ...

The ancient faith of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church traces its origins to the Apostle Thomas who went to India in A.D. 52. From the fourth century, the Indian Church entered into a close ...

The rivalry within the Oriental Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch in India has deepened with its two factions and the government in the southern Kerala state approaching India's Supreme Court for ...

The Malankara Church opposed the installation of the Jacobite Church’s Catholicos, calling on state and federal authorities in India not to send a delegation to Lebanon for the ceremony. Joseph Mar ...

Kottayam (Kerala)/ New Delhi [India], April 21 (ANI): The passing of Pope Francis, a beloved and inspiring spiritual leader, not only of the Catholic Church, but for all Christians, is indeed a ...

Baselios Marthoma Paulose II, head of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, died on July 12 at the age of 74. He had been undergoing cancer treatment for the last two years. Paulose was or­dained as a ...