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Religion News Service on MSN4d
How a Russian Orthodox leader's diplomacy with Rome became a casualty of Ukraine war
The story of the Rev. Hilarion Alfeyev captures how a once robust effort to bring Russian Orthodox Christianity and the ...
Catholic News Agency15d
Catholic-Orthodox families prepare with joy to celebrate shared Easter date
From the city of Yekaterinburg in Russia, Lovskiy’s wife, three children, and six grandchildren are all Russian Orthodox. His youngest son is a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church. “ ...
National Catholic Register11d
Top Ecumenical Initiatives of Pope Francis: A Retrospective
In 2016, he became the first pope ever to meet the head of the Russian Orthodox Church. Pope Francis meets ... “I’ll go wherever you want. You call me and I’ll go.” The meeting eventually ...
The Associated Press on MSN15d
Four centuries later, Easter's date remains divisive. Some church leaders want that to change
For more than 400 years, Catholic and Orthodox churches have used different ... Father Anastasios welcomed parishioners into ...
Daily Mail14d
Easter around the world: From bombed out church in Lebanon to community prayer in Pakistan, how Christian occasion was marked across the globe
Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill led the Orthodox Easter service as Russian President Vladimir Putin and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin stood near at Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow.
The Art Newspaper12d
Remembering Pope Francis, for 12 years head of the Catholic church and proprietor in trust of the Vatican's library and art collections
The Argentinian pontiff was a powerful progressive voice in world politics, the first Jesuit priest to be spiritual leader of ...
National Catholic Register8d
The Passion of Ukraine: How Faith, Memory and Courage Sustain a Nation at War
These men had fought near Kharkiv ... is under attack. On Orthodox Palm Sunday — the date of which the Catholic and Orthodox Churches shared this year — Russian missiles killed 36 people ...