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 ...

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

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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 ...

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 ...

But the two churches started using different calendars after Pope Gregory XIII’s adaptation in 1582, when the Western church ...

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 ...

The idea of a common Easter has been discussed since the 1960s, with interest peaking when celebrations coincide, as they will this year ...

In fact, nowhere else in the world do Eastern and Western Christian traditions ... united in a hostile environment.” A Greek Orthodox priest holds a bundle of candles at the Basilica of the ...

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 ...