Pope Leo XIV urges a common Easter date for Catholics and Orthodox at a Vatican symposium marking 1,700 years since the ...

The Orthodox faithful in Greece mark the Monday of the Holy Spirit, a public holiday, especially for schools and public ...

EDITORIAL: Many Catholics feel the switch downplays the immense importance of the great feast of the Ascension.

Pentecost Sunday is one of movable feasts in the Church calendar. This is because it depends on the date of Easter. In the Church calendar it falls seven Sundays or 50 days after Easter Sunday.

On May 21, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church marks the feast day of St.St. Constantine and ... one of the foundational stories of the Christian faith. Their pilgrimage to the Holy Land is among ...

Orthodox Christian art has almost nothing in common with its Catholic and Protestant counterparts despite the shared ...

Moscow recently marked the 1,700th anniversary of the first Ecumenical Council when the profession of faith was drafted. Coincidentally, Putin and Pope Leo XIV spoke on the phone, providing an opportu ...

Less spending, higher prices and fewer animal sacrifices subdued the usual festive mood as the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha ...

“Holy and Great ... Christian life is acquiring the Holy Spirit of God.” Further reading: Lent, ‘a wake-up call for the soul,’ says Pope Francis In the Orthodox calendar, fasting days ...

For the second year since the war with Israel broke out, no Muslims in Gaza were able to travel to Saudi Arabia to perform ...

Patriarch Bartholomew's message, read on Sunday, March 17 in Orthodox parishes affiliated with Constantinople, emphasized the Great Lent as ... Lent celebrated as feast days.

Laudato Si' could be as transformative as Rerum Novarum, which opened the fruitful chapter of Catholic social teaching. Let ...