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

The US Commission on Religious Freedom has been sent a submission from the Estonian Orthodox Christian Church and an Estonian convent appealing for American help against what they say is an attempt to ...

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

Christians of all denominations are celebrating Easter. Orthodox Christians in Germany are grateful for that, and long for more.

The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of much of the Eastern Orthodox ... between the Russian Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches, as well as constructive ...

A top official of the Moscow Patriarchate has lauded the role played by late Pope Francis in developing contacts of Catholics with the Russian Orthodox Church. Pope Francis died Monday. He was 88.

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

St. John died in a building behind the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral on Capitol Hill. The room where he died is a ...

Lovskiy’s wife, three children and six grandchildren are all Russian Orthodox ... the “first among equals” of the Eastern Orthodox Church, to designate a common date for Easter with the ...

It follows warnings that Eastern Orthodox Churches are under pressure because of the important role played in Eastern Christianity by the Russian Orthodox Church, which has backed President Putin ...