St. Procopius suffered honourably at Caesarea in Palestine and was crowned with a wreath of immortal glory on July 8, 303.

June 29th is one of the most significant days in the Orthodox Church’s calendar, as it commemorates the memory of the Holy ...

On 28 December, the Feast of the Holy Innocents, churches across the region remembered children killed in war, particularly the 8,000 who have died in the Holy Land since October 2023.

Dec. 28, the Feast of the Holy Innocents or Childermas, commemorated King Herod's massacre of the male children of Bethlehem in an attempt to kill the boy he feared would replace him as King of ...

Trauma journalist Patricia Evangelista’s groundbreaking “Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country” (Random House, 2023)—or SPNK—is hardly the book to read in this season of joy and ...

Long before “Happy holidays,” there was a real war on Christmas 400 years ago With the Protestant Reformation came a broad critique of Christmas celebrations as an idolatrous practice ...

Pope Francis asked in a letter to bishops on the Feast of the Holy Innocents in 2016. The mothers of Bethlehem did not know their babies died as martyrs. We only know that in hindsight.

December 28 is the Feast of the Holy Innocents, the babies of Bethlehem slaughtered by Herod in his attempt to kill a potential rival to the throne. And January 1, the eighth day of Christmas ...

Catholic charities and church leaders were among those who spoke out against modern crimes against children on the Feast of Holy Innocents on 28 December. Jesuit media highlighted how the story of ...

In the Catholic Church, the massacre of the babies of Bethlehem is commemorated each year as the Feast of the Holy Innocents. The feast is held every Christmastide on December 28 — today.