The July 7 event at Canterbury is evidence of a growing interest in shrines, saints and relics in the Church of England, ...

About 72% of Russians are Orthodox, 7% are Muslim, 5% are atheist, and 13% do not have a religious affiliation. About 3% of ...

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 ...

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.

Now the Catholic Church is not alone in accepting the Books which Protestants label as "Apocrypha." The Coptic, Greek and Russian Orthodox churches also recognize these Books as inspired by God.

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

In an intensely spiritual moment, Jackie Webb leaned over and kissed the image of Christ crucified Tuesday evening in the ...

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 ...

Explore how Pope Leo turns to American Catholic conservatives amid Vatican's financial struggles, looking to stabilize the Church's strained budget.

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 ...