Imagine stepping into a church that looks fully Orthodox—icons, incense, chanting, bearded priests—but it's actually Catholic ...

Most Eastern Christians in union ... since his father is Greek Orthodox and his mother, who died in 2017, was Catholic. The priest’s Catholic mother, who was born in England, and his Greek ...

India has had a thriving community of Eastern Orthodox Christians, brought by Saint Thomas the Apostle to India.

In a seemingly analogous (but not strictly corresponding) fashion, the Hasidic tzaddik distributes the leftovers of his third ...

The story of the Rev. Hilarion Alfeyev captures how a once robust effort to bring Russian Orthodox Christianity and the ...

Two major proposals led by Jared Kushner and a new airport championed by the Albanian government focus on an area prized for ...

ISTANBUL (RNS) — This year, Eastern and Western churches will ... Speaking to Bosnian media, Catholic priest Ljubo Zadrić and Orthodox Abbot Danilo Pavlović urged their respective communities ...

Group of priests celebrating Orthodox Easter in Lalibela, Wollo, Ethiopia 2013/05/03. Source: Getty That said, Eritrean believers fast from meat and dairy for 40 days, like those of the Eastern ...

In a 2024 meeting with Syro-Malabar Major Archbishop Raphael Thattil of Ernakulam-Angamaly, Pope Francis summed up his view ...

The priest, identified as conservative by his ... to the great schism of 1054 that marked the separation between the Eastern Orthodox Church in then Constantinople and the Western Catholic Church ...

Ukraine War, the Ukrainian Cultural Club of Dallas is using dance, food, music and art as a way to find strength and unity.

This is considered the most important and joyous festival – the "Feast of Feasts" – in the Eastern Orthodox Church ... Around midnight, the priest emerges, holding a lit candle, representing ...