Robert Prevost has been elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic Church. The Chicago-born ...

The spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians has warned against the unchecked rise of artificial intelligence and ...

A Holy Eucharist service was held in Rome to mark the commissioning of the Rt Revd Anthony Ball as the Director of the ...

From conclaves to reincarnation, religious traditions around the world follow different rules when selecting new spiritual ...

Their story is a living example of the turbulent history between the Catholic and the Orthodox Churches, where faith, power plays, and the centuries-old split between the Orthodox East and Catholic ...

The Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia has paved the way for the blessing of same sex relationships - but Anglican churches in Polynesia will all opt out - the Anglican Synod said ...

As the Central Committee Meeting of the Conference of European Churches (CEC) is now underway in Greece, the new General Secretary of CEC has been elected. The Venerable Colin Williams, Anglican ...

The conflict brought relations between the Vatican and the Russian Orthodox Church to a new low in 2022 when Francis said its Patriarch Kirill, who supported the conflict, should not act like ...

As Pope, he made great efforts to heal the thousand-year rift with the Eastern Orthodox Church. In recognition, for the first time since the Great Schism of 1054, the Patriarch of Constantinople ...

But this year it will. While the Catholic Church and Protestant denominations make use of the Gregorian Calendar, which was adopted in October 1582, the Orthodox Church still utilizes the Julian ...

This year, Orthodox Easter will be observed on the same day as the Western one: Sunday, 20 April. The shared date is relatively rare as the churches use different calendars. Orthodox Easter is ...