Retired Rev. Michael Zelneronok, the last remaining Latvian Orthodox priest living in exile, died Monday (Sept. 8, 2003). He was 94.

01/06/2024 January 6, 2024. Following the Julian calendar, millions of Orthodox Christians around the world celebrate Christmas on January 6 and 7 — for instance, in Egypt, Serbia or Armenia.

Riga's demand for autocephaly to the Latvian Orthodox Church is discrimination on religious grounds and an attempt to break the foundations of Orthodoxy, said Gennady Askaldovich, special ...

Sergei Dyomin, one of the highest-earning artists in the Latvian capital, Riga, has built his fame around a singular motif -- re-creating Orthodox icons where the saints bear the faces of monkeys.

Nowadays only 20% of Latvian residents go to church on Christmas, according to latest polls, but more and more people with each passing year take part in worldly festivities and open-air merry-making.

In Latvia, Catholics comprise 25% of the population, Lutherans 34.2%, and Russian Orthodox 17%, with other smaller, mostly Christian denominations making up the remainder.