The first American pope arrives at a time of extraordinary complexity and tension in the church in the United States.

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Mamdani, a Democratic Socialist, is making good on pledge to build inroads among Jews, spurring outrage from some Orthodox ...

Nestled atop a plateau that overlooks deserts and savannas linking the coastal lowlands and central highlands of Ethiopia and ...

George Simion, a nationalist and vocal supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump and his MAGA movement, has won Romania’s ...

Greek Cypriot bishop Markos in Kenya has a mission to help as many poverty-stricken people as possible in the African country ...

The story of the Rev. Hilarion Alfeyev captures how a once robust effort to bring Russian Orthodox Christianity and the ...

All Roman Catholics are Christians, but not the other way around, differing in beliefs about the sacraments, the pope, the ...

A newly registered tartan, woven in black, grey and red, has been designed to commemorate those accused under Scotland’s centuries-old witchcraft laws. The Witches Tartan recognises those ...

It belongs to the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro — the largest church in the world, dwarfing even St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. Few outside the region know of it. Fewer still understand ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. Cyprus has a population of about 1.1 million, nearly 82 percent of whom follow the Greek Orthodox Church and celebrate Easter accordingly, ...