In summoning an ecumenical council, a general meeting of the bishops of the church, he hoped to bring spiritual rebirth to Catholicism and greater unity with other branches of Christianity. When ...

St. Olga, a Yup'ik woman who died in 1979 at age 63, was a midwife, a mother of 13 and the wife of an Orthodox Christian ...

The Orthodox Church in America has its first female saint from North America. Hundreds of pilgrims joined several bishops in an elaborate ceremony to canonize St. Olga Michael in her ...

Holy Trinity’s old church was destroyed by a fire in 2015, and it rebuilt a much bigger church that opened in 2019. Finishing the art has been a long process. Father James Paris has been with ...

Houston’s Annunciation Greek Orthodox Cathedral, one of the largest Greek Orthodox communities in the nation, expects to cover each of its walls with colorful Byzantine iconography by the year 2027, ...

RIVER baptisms are set to become a regular part of Moorland Church, an all-weather, Celtic-style outdoor church held monthly in the Camelside benefice of five parishes and seven churches on Bodmin ...

Costumed trick-or-treating takes its inspiration from the Celtic holiday Samhain—“summer’s end” in Irish—more than 2,000 years ago. Samhain marked New Year’s Day and fell around ...

Each year, roughly 13,000 ultra-Orthodox men reach the conscription age of 18, but less than 10% enlist, according to parliament’s State Control Committee, which held a hearing examining the issue.

Church Has Always Condemned Abortion By Fr. William Saunders. Tuesday, July 01, 2025. A service ... For the Jewish people of those times and orthodox Jews to this day, ...

St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral (Cathedrale Orthodoxe Russe St. Nicolas) is ranked #20 out of 22 things to do in Nice. ... The church is open daily though specific hours can vary.

He is the Bishop of Rome, Vicar of the universal Church, Primate of Italy; hmong others. As the Bishop of Rome he is the head of the Latin or Roman rite. This is by far the largest rite in the Church.