The first female Orthodox saint in North America was an Indigenous woman who spent her entire life with her Yup'ik family and ...

Last month, the Russian Orthodox Church canonized a new saint: Olga Michael, who lived in the small ton of Kwethluk, Alaska, until her death in 1979. St. Olga is the first Yup’ik to be canonized in ...

KWETHLUK, Alaska — It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael quietly lived her entire life as a midwife and a mother of 13. As the wife of an ...

The churches that filed suit Monday include the Orthodox Church of America, the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America and numerous other Orthodox jurisdictions.

open image in gallery Hasidic Jewish men chat inside Gottlieb's Restaurant on Monday, June 16, 2025, in the Brooklyn borough of New York (AP) The Orthodox make up 9%. The president of the Union for ...

The Orthodox Church in America has its first female saint from North America. Hundreds of pilgrims joined several bishops in an elaborate ceremony to canonize St. Olga Michael in her ...

Worshippers fill St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in Kwethluk, Alaska, on June 19, 2025, for the canonization ceremony of St. Olga, the first female Orthodox saint in North America.

Several Orthodox monks and martyrs with ties to Alaska have already been canonized in the Orthodox Church in America, the now-independent offspring of the Russian Orthodox Church.

The Orthodox Church in America has its first female saint from North America.

Several Orthodox monks and martyrs with ties to Alaska have already been canonized in the Orthodox Church in America, the now-independent offspring of the Russian Orthodox Church.