(Public domain via Wikimedia Commons) “The Georgian Patriarchate wants to build a completely new Georgian Orthodox church on the site,” said Eto Gvritishvili, a lawyer with the Human Rights Education ...

VATICAN CITY — A high Vatican official has accused the Georgian Orthodox Church of issuing false information in a successful attempt to block the signing of a pact to guarantee religious freedom ...

The Georgian Orthodox Church advised its followers, which make up 85% of the country's population, to not attend Pope Francis' Saturday morning mass in Tbilisi Stadium. The Pope is concluding his ...

The Georgian Orthodox Church advised its followers, which make up 85% of the country's population, to not attend Pope Francis' Saturday morning mass in Tbilisi Stadium.

Patriarch Ilia, 84, has run the Georgian Orthodox Church since 1977. Repressed in Soviet times, the Church has enjoyed a big revival since Georgian independence in 1991. More than 80% of Georgia's ...

SUKHUMI -- The Abkhaz Orthodox Church has officially split from the Georgian Orthodox Church, RFE/RL's Russian and Georgian services report. The head of the Sukhumi-Abkhaz diocese, Father ...

The ceremony was led by the 87-year-old head of the Georgian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Ilia II. Worshippers had to stay in the church throughout the night of April 18-19 as a curfew -- one of the ...

Speaking to Georgia's religious and civil authorities on Saturday, Pope Francis affirmed the country's Christian identity, and called the Georgian Orthodox Church to recall the unity of baptism ...