Jeanne Constantinou, an Orthodox Christian and a retired professor of Biblical studies ... the push for a female diaconate has been motivated by women demanding equal opportunities with men in the ...

(RNS)— A consortium of Orthodox Christian scholars, clergy and lay supporters meeting this week outside Boston proposed guidelines for the church to revive the ancient practice of allowing women ...

giving his blessing to including lay girls and women in liturgical processions. But Metropolitan Saba, leader of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America⁠, the sponsor of ...

The earliest Christian communities met in ... from about the second century on. Where women distinguished themselves in the orthodox community were as martyrs.... And there are famous women ...

and in America religious is Christian. Christianity holds very different views on abortion.” Bleich’s proposal of a fund to get Orthodox women to liberal states was unviable, said Keats ...

AFP — A woman born in France to a Christian family was not an obvious candidate to become a trailblazing Orthodox rabbi in Israel, but 40-year-old former journalist Eliora Peretz has done just that.