Southeast Missourian

Alaska Native woman, 'everybody's helper,' is Orthodox church's first female North American saint

KWETHLUK, Alaska (AP) — It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael quietly lived her entire life as a midwife and a mother of 13. As the wife ...
Religion News Service

Can ecumenism survive some Orthodox churches' resistance to ordained women?

(RNS) — In January, at an ecumenical prayer service in Warsaw for International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a recently ordained Lutheran priest, the Rev. Wiktoria Matloch, was asked to leave the event ...
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Alaska Native woman, 'everybody's helper,' is Orthodox church's first female North American saint

Stephanie Byrd-Parrales and family pick up some school supplies. Read full article: Human remains in Ocala National Forest ID’d as man missing out of Lake County, sheriff’s office says KWETHLUK, ...
NJ.com

Alaska Native woman, ‘everybody’s helper,’ is Orthodox church’s first female North American saint

KWETHLUK, Alaska (AP) — It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael quietly lived her entire life as a midwife and a mother of 13. As the wife ...
Hartford Courant

Alaska Native woman, ‘everybody’s helper,’ is Orthodox church’s first female North American saint

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Bozeman Daily Chronicle

Alaska Native woman, 'everybody's helper,' is Orthodox church's first female North American saint

Worshippers, including an Orthodox priest wearing a black cassock, walk on the dusty streets of Kwethluk, Alaska, on June 19, 2025, heading to St. Nicholas Orthodox Church for the canonization ...