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 ...

U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom report found continued “intense persecution” of Ukrainian Orthodox, ...

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 ...

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.

Russia continued to persecute pastors and shutter churches within its borders and in territories it occupies in Ukraine, the ...

Protestants, who follow the same calendar as Catholics, have also been in on the discussions. The Geneva-based World Council of Churches — a fellowship of Orthodox and Protestant bodies — has ...

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 ...

Protestants, who follow the same calendar as Catholics, have also been in on the discussions. The Geneva-based World Council of Churches — a fellowship of Orthodox and Protestant bodies — has ...

Protestants, who follow the same calendar as Catholics, have also been in on the discussions. The Geneva-based World Council of Churches — a fellowship of Orthodox and Protestant bodies — has ...