A move to require clergy to report child abuse even when it is revealed during the sacrament of confession is in sharp ...

A group of Orthodox churches is suing to block a new law in Washington State that requires priests to violate the seal of confession and report incidents of child abuse. In May, Washington’s ...

An Orthodox priest hears confession during a Mass celebrated Oct. 26, 2007, in Bucharest, Romania. In the United States, a group of Orthodox churches filed a federal lawsuit over a new law in ...

A federal judge has halted a Washington state law that required Catholic priests to break the seal of confession. The law ...

Long before the Rev. Ian Shipley began leading Chico’s Orthodox Christian community, he converted to the faith at age 16, ...

Orthodox Christianity, by comparison, is faring well nationwide, according to Krindatch’s estimates. Between 2000 and 2012, the total number of Eastern Orthodox parishes in the United States ...