Urbi et orbi” means “To the city [of Rome] and to the world.” It is a special apostolic blessing given by the pope every year ...

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan expressed his warm wishes for the Easter holiday, emphasizing the importance of freedom in ...

Easter will be celebrated the same day for Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox members alike. Father Kostandin Tuda of Holy ...

Ukrainians are gathering together to mark Easter, with little faith in the possibility of a ceasefire with Russia as both ...

It was a time of great and fervent excitement. By act of Congress, citizens were asked to turn to their Creator in ...

Easter is celebrated on the Sunday following Good Friday in April each year. In prayers around the world for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, The Russian Orthodox Church patriarch Kirill presided ...

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

Each year, the Greek Patriarch of Jerusalem leads the Holy Fire ceremony. He enters the Edicule, a small shrine within the Holy Sepulchre encasing Christ’s ...

The subject of numerous controversies, she is defined by ambiguity, welcoming outcasts to the Church and provoking more ...

Eastern and Western churches will celebrate Easter on the same day this year, while marking 1,700 years since the Council of ...

With Catholic and Orthodox Easter falling on the same day this year, four parishes in Brooklyn are merging their choirs for a ...

An Orthodox Church in Crete stands unique in Greece for integrating icons of heroes from the Greek War of Independence into ...