For three weeks in January, 25 seminarians and two leaders from The St. Paul Seminary in St. Paul traveled and prayed in the footsteps of the seminary’s patron saint in Greece and Turkey, experiencing ...

The belief in an afterlife is ancient and existed before modern humans. "Even Neanderthals buried their dead with rituals and ...

The Nirvana song Polly is based on real events. Kurt Cobain wrote it after a 14-year-old girl from Tacoma, Washington, was kidnapped, raped, and tortured by Gerald Friend in 1987. She managed to ...

It is also known for its rich political history. It was one of the few nations never colonized and successfully resisted an ...

He created a 300-person Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant choir and orchestra. Then he took a break.

The Lent season – which is a 40-day period of prayer and fasting leading up to Easter – starts on Ash Wednesday and ends on the Thursday before Easter Sunday. This year, Ash Wednesday and the ...

The principles underpinning our societies: freedom of speech, freedom of association, and freedom of religion, that flow from ...

With the intention of preserving Byzantine spiritual wisdom, Greek monk Nicodemus devoted his life to writing the massive tome Philokalia.

A new film, "The 21," recounts the beheadings 10 years ago of 21 Coptic Christians by ISIS radicals. But the film also ...

A senior Ukrainian Orthodox Church official recently warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin thinks the Kremlin is in a ...

All fifth Sundays are a joint service of the two churches with communion rotating between the Episcopal tradition and the ...

Catholic and Orthodox — fall on the same date, April 20, due to the alignment of the Julian and Gregorian calendars.