A Moscow Patriarchate official praised Pope Francis for fostering ties between the Russian Orthodox and Roman Catholic ...

Pope Francis has made greater unity with the Orthodox a priority of his pontificate; he has especially expressed his desire ...

Pope Francis often surprised the world by breaking Vatican traditions. He elevated several men from remote corners of the ...

For more than 400 years, Catholic and Orthodox churches have used different ways to determine the date of Easter. But this Easter marked a special moment for Christians, as the churches celebrate of ...

Pope Francis, the first Latin American leader of the Roman Catholic Church, passed away as announced by the Vatican. His ...

“The earth loses a defender,” wrote the Mapuche Confederation of Neuquén, an Indigenous rights organization in Argentina, on ...

Christians around the world will celebrate on the same day this year, a relative rarity. Pope Francis would like to make it ...

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.

Bartholomew I of Constantinople, the spiritual leader of Orthodox Christians, has expressed sorrow over the death of Pope ...

But it's not always the same day. Typically, the Catholic and Protestant churches dominant in the U.S. mark Easter days or even months ahead of Eastern Orthodox Christians, whose Easter is also ...

ISTANBUL (RNS) — This year, Eastern and Western churches ... including Greek Orthodox, Armenian, Syriac, Catholic and Protestant. “The life of the church in Istanbul is made up of ...