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Greek Orthodox Patriarchate Supports First Woman Deacon in Africa Mission

In a first for the global Orthodox Church, the Greek Orthodox Church in Africa has backed the ordination of a female deaconess by the Archbishop of Zimbabwe to serve the Church's growing mission in ...
The Salt Lake Tribune

Orthodox Judaism is making space for women’s religious leadership — even without traditional ordination

When people picture a rabbi, they may imagine a man standing in front of a congregation in a synagogue. But “rabbi” means much more than that. For example, a rabbi could be a teacher, a nonprofit ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Orthodox women activists pledge to hold ‘sex strike’ to protest religious divorce refusal

The idea of the “sex strike” originates from Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, the Greek comedy where the women of Athens refrained from sleeping with their husbands in order to pressure them to end the ...
Reuters

Greek women enter male-only Mount Athos community

ATHENS (Reuters) - About a dozen Greek women violated a 1,000-year ban on the male-only monastic community of Mount Athos on Tuesday during a protest over disputed land, one of the demonstrators said ...
The Forward

With Female Religious Scholars, Orthodox Women Open Up About Sex

With Shabbat fast approaching, the sun was beginning to melt in the Jerusalem sky when the phone rang in Noa Lau’s kitchen. On the line was a woman who spoke in a voice still raw from the grief of a ...