This year, Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox Christians will mark Easter on the same day, Sunday, April 20. The shared date is relatively rare due to the different calendars used by Western and ...

That means Easter for Catholics and Protestants can fall anywhere from March 22 to April 25, but it’s from April 4 to May 8 for the estimated 260 million Orthodox Christians worldwide, for whom ...

COMMENTARY: Despite what desires remain in Rome for full communion, it is a complete impossibility when the two most ...

How often do Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox Easter coincide? The holidays converge about once every three to four years − they last overlapped in 2014 and 2017 and will line up again in 2028.

Pope Francis walks past flowers as he celebrates Easter Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican in this April 16, 2017, file photo. This year, churches both Catholic and Orthodox, despite having ...

But as the years go by, the calendars used by churches — the Gregorian calendar by Western Catholics and Protestants and the Julian calendar by Eastern Orthodox churches — continue to diverge.

This year marks the 1700th anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea (325)! The word ecumenical comes from the Greek oikoumene (οἰκουμένη), which translates as “the whole inhabited ...

Data published in June by Switzerland's Federal Statistical Office shows that fewer people in the Alpine country believe in ...