The festival kickstarts the year for the church but also serves as a way to reach more people in the community. It’s an event ...

India has had a thriving community of Eastern Orthodox Christians, brought by Saint Thomas the Apostle to India.

With the holy commemorations of Good Friday and Easter for Roman Catholics, Orthodox Greeks and other Christian denominations ...

ROME, Metropolitan City of Rome Capital — In the last 18 months of his life, Pope Francis had a frequent evening ritual: He ...

Orthodox Christians filled a Jerusalem Church to celebrate the Holy Light ceremony, before it is transported to Greece to ...

For more than 400 years, Catholic and Orthodox churches have used different ways to determine ... (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) Greek Catholic believers and foreigners who live in Greece attend the ...

During the Crusader period, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre became an international center of pilgrimage. The Greek Orthodox Catholicon, inside the church (Photo: Cristina Gottardi). After the defeat ...

But the two churches started using different calendars after Pope Gregory XIII’s adaptation in 1582, when the Western church adopted the Gregorian calendar while the Eastern Orthodox Church kept ...

Ongoing archaeological excavations inside the basilica ... s ambulatory and at the top through a glass panel in the Greek Orthodox chapel. Credit: Marinella Bandini According to Christian ...

Greek Easer is an elevating spiritual celebration ... Holy Friday is the day of mourning, when many people go to church to commemorate the death of Jesus on the cross. On Saturday evening, people go ...

Specifically, for the past four months, he’s spent long hours 65 feet above the altar in St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church’s cupola, or dome, painting an iconic representation of the ...