"With this cross, I pray you bring peace to the world and make America invincible!" said Archbishop Elpidophoros of the Greek ...

Greek Independence Day, on March 25, marks the beginning of the Greek revolt against Ottoman rule in 1821 and overlaps with the Feast of the Annunciation.

Pope Francis announced the appointment of a Filipino bishop as the Holy See’s Apostolic Nuncio to the European Union.

The new Primate will need to be savvy, navigating between conflicting pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian currents in the small but ...

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Francis was admitted to a hospital Feb. 14 after a bout of bronchitis worsened. He later developed a life-threatening case of ...

In a letter circulated in the churches, the complaint about the continuous opening of bars and pubs to make money from the ...

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Grech said the new phase’s goal “is to ensure that implementation does not happen in isolation, as if each diocese or eparchy ...

Pope Francis’s pontificate has been about evasion as well as empathy, and he has made it clear holy orders are reserved for ...

As Iranians celebrate the Persian New Year, explore the fascinating calendars still used around the world—shaped by sun, moon ...

THE senior Russian Orthodox bishop who allegedly the target of a murder plot by two ethnic Ukrainian laymen has asked to meet ...