Catholic and Orthodox Christians -- and a few Protestants ... to it as the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Eastern church calls it the Feast of the Dormition of ...

Orthodox believers on Monday, September 21, celebrate one of the most significant religious holidays - the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos or the Birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary, TASS reports.

A service was held at an Orthodox church in southern Türkiye on Thursday to mark the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. Christians gathered at the St. George (Mar Circos) Greek Orthodox ...

Most people know that the Virgin Mary is very popular among Catholic and Orthodox Christians. But what they usually don't know is that the Mother of God is also venerated by devotees from other ...

The veneration of Virgin Mary is central to Catholics, from popes to the ordinary faithful. Pope Leo XIV closed the first public blessing as pontiff with a Hail Mary, after invoking the feast day of ...

Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral ... pew this week while eyeing the painted icons of blues and golds of the Virgin Mary, John the Baptist and the four evangelists—John, Luke, Mark and ...