Fr. Damick says he doesn’t know if or how the ceremony departed from the text of the Orthodox marriage service, but the photos of the ritual don’t really look like an Orthodox marriage.

Ultra-Orthodox Jews in America have high fertility but very low rates of teen fertility and marriage, and fairly egalitarian marriage ages. Ultra-Orthodox Jewish fertility is high but not necessarily ...

Albania's Orthodox Church has enthroned new Archbishop Ioannis of Tirana, Durrës, and All Albania, the newly elected primate ...

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New legislation banning child marriage in Washington, D.C., was signed into law last week following advocacy by a coalition ...

Greece has moved to ban surrogacy for gay male couples and single men, despite legalising same-sex marriage and adoption last ...

Men in Greece will be barred from having children via surrogacy if they are single or in a same-sex relationship. That's according to the justice minister on Tuesday.

In 1983, the rabbi saw opportunity to leverage the Orthodox community’s marriage norms to limit, even perhaps eradicate, Tay-Sachs in that relatively insular world. The gene for Tay-Sachs ...

The movie carries a feeling of authenticity because it was written by Mindi Ehrlich, a woman from a haredi family who left ...

"With this cross, I pray you bring peace to the world and make America invincible!" said Archbishop Elpidophoros of the Greek ...

TASS/. Russian Orthodox Church supports the proposal to cement the concept of marriage as a union between a man and a woman in the Russian Constitution, says Church spokesman Vladimir Legoida.

Clinton also won over Orthodox Jews by consulting with them frequently and supporting their religious freedom, Cohen said. Clinton opposed same-sex marriage, supported certain kinds of federal ...