For Christians in the Middle East, this moment carries particular significance. These ancient communities, rooted in lands ...

On the seventh day of the Novendiales Masses for Pope Francis, Cardinal Claudio Gugerotti ended his homily with a prayer to ...

Indiana lost the season series to the Bucks 3-1. The Cavaliers are the Eastern Conference No. 1 seed, and would play the Pacers in the East semifinals if each wins their first-round series.

There have been twelve Greek Popes in the history of the papacy, with Saint Peter considered to be the first Catholic leader.

In a deeply moving reflection, Patriarch John X and Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II described the case as "a fundamental matter ...

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 ...

As the executive director of the Wind River Buffalo Initiative and Eastern Shoshone tribal member, Baldes has helped grow the number of buffalo on the reservation for the last decade. The latest ...

Orthodox Christians in Germany are grateful ... Protestant churches — celebrate Easter on different dates than the Eastern churches? To understand why, we need to take a look at the churches ...

Orthodox Easter is associated primarily with the "Eastern" world, which includes parts of the Middle East, Greece, Russia and Serbia, and is marked slightly differently to the way it is celebrated ...

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 ...