The festival kickstarts the year for the church but also serves as a way to reach more people in the community. It’s an event ...

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

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But the two churches started using different calendars after Pope Gregory XIII’s adaptation in 1582, when the Western church adopted the Gregorian calendar while the Eastern Orthodox Church kept ...

the Orthodox Christian archbishop of Athens and head of the Greek Orthodox Church, and made a night-time visit to the Parthenon. “History makes its weight felt, and here, today, I feel the need ...

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Russian President Vladimir Putin was joined by Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin alongside other worshippers for an Easter service on Sunday, which was led by Patriarch Kirill, who is the chief of Russia’s ...

The occasion is marked across the world, with most following the Roman Catholic church or belonging to Protestant denominations celebrating Easter a week before most of their Orthodox counterparts.

While the Catholic and Protestant churches adhere to the Gregorian calendar, the Orthodox Church follows the Julian calendar, established by Julius Caesar in 45 BC. This discrepancy means that the two ...

It now has more than 1,500 registered members, and church leaders say more than 4,000 people attend services each week. DSK Mariam is part of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Churches — one of ...

The Epitaphio (the symbolic funeral bier of Christ) during a Good Friday at Greek Orthodox Church of St. Athanasios at Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney, April, 2015 Source: AAP Similarities greater than ...

April 20 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin joined other worshippers for an Easter service led by the head of Russia's Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill ...