Albania's Orthodox Church has enthroned new Archbishop Ioannis of Tirana, Durrës, and All Albania, the newly elected primate of the Orthodox Church of Albania, a church that withstood attempts to decimate it during the communist era.
In many of the world's countries, 20 percent or more of all adults have left the religious group in which they were raised, a recent Pew Research survey has found.
The Greek Orthodox Church's Holy Synod has denounced the content of an exhibition at the National Gallery – the Alexandros Soutsos Museum, in Athens, following a vandalism attack by an ultraconservative lawmaker.
In the twelfth year of his papacy, Pope Francis marked several key events for the Catholic Church in his 88th year while receiving treatment for bilateral pneumonia at Rome's Gemelli Hospital.
Patriarch Theophilos III, Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and All of Palestine and Jordan, has noted fears the ancient Christian community in Gaza "has now dwindled to under 600 people."
The head of the Sebastia Diocese of the Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem has criticized U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio for his support of Israel's military actions in Gaza.
After many years of steady decline, the share of Americans who identify as Christians shows signs of leveling off – at least temporarily – at slightly above six-in-ten, a substantial new Pew Research Center survey of 36,908 U.S. adults shows.U.S