Their faces, hats and flamenco dresses caked in dust, hundreds of pilgrims gathered around an ox-driven carriage with their icon of ...

Mediterranean sights and sounds were in full swing at the annual Greek Festival hosted by Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Church in ...

Pope Leo XIV greets Orthodox Metropolitan Emmanuel of Chalcedon, a bishop of the Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarchate, during a ...

By celebrating together this Nicene faith and by proclaiming it together, we will also advance towards the restoration of ...

"Through theological dialogue and with the help of God, we will gain a better understanding of the mystery that unites us." ...

This year, Orthodox ... Coptic Christian families attend midnight mass on Easter Saturday to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. After mass, family and close friends come together to have a feast ...

Other Orthodox ... Coptic Orthodox households. "A lot of it's meat-based, because of course, some people have abstained from eating meat, and all type of animal products. "It's definitely a big ...

The feast of the martyrs, referred to as the 21 Coptic Martyrs of Libya, is celebrated on Feb. 15 in both the Catholic Church and the Coptic Orthodox Church. During the Coptic leader’s visit to ...

Despite the cancellation of festivities, church leaders still gathered to welcome the arrival of patriarchs from different Orthodox churches — Greek, Coptic ... toss a wooden cross into the ...

Constantine the Great built the first church there, dedicated in about 336 A.D. His mother, St. Helena, was believed to have found a relic of the cross of ... next to the Coptic Chapel, at the ...

Coptic Orthodox Churches on Tuesday ... the elderly and children to the festive mass for the feast of the Virgin Mary. The celebration ceremony was presided over by Father Royce Morcos at the Orthodox ...

As July 9 is a Sunday in 2023, countries that mark the feast transfer it to Monday ... Those who expressed faith in Christ were killed. The Orthodox, who had also been in China since the mid ...