Antioch East Baptist Church at 2303 Old Stage Road in Greenville will host Vacation Bible School June 9 - 13, 8:30 a.m. to 12 ...

On Thursday, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church commemorates the Ascension of the Lord, also known as Spasovden. It is always ...

While beheadings grab headlines, poverty and cultural friction push emigration to the West—where the welcome is not always ...

Off the road system, any big event requires a unique set of logistics. For the upcoming glorification of St. Olga in the ...

Check out our full calendar listings here for this weekend and beyond; send us yours: [email protected]. The 35th rendering of the Marietta Greek ...

The Serbian Orthodox Metropolitan GrigorijeImage: Miodrag Soric/DW At the end of the 16th century, Pope Gregory XIII (1502-1585) reformed the "Julian calendar" and replaced it with the "Gregorian ...

This year, Orthodox Easter will be observed on the same day as the Western one: Sunday, 20 April. The shared date is relatively rare as the churches use different calendars. Orthodox Easter is ...

Pope Gregory XIII enacted further reforms in 1582, which gave the Catholic Church the Gregorian calendar it follows today. But because the Catholic and Orthodox had split in 1024, the Orthodox ...

when the Western church adopted the Gregorian calendar while the Eastern Orthodox Church kept the older Julian one. Moreover, each church uses its own ecclesiastical calculations for lunar cycles ...

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

But while most Western churches calculate the date using the Gregorian calendar introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582, Eastern Orthodox churches use the older Julian calendar, established by ...