The story of the Rev. Hilarion Alfeyev captures how a once robust effort to bring Russian Orthodox Christianity and the ...

The conflict brought relations between the Vatican and the Russian Orthodox Church to a new ... Although his style was not welcomed by all members of the Church hierarchy, some of whom had become ...

A part of Kärnave Street in Vilnius will be named after the Lithuanian mercenary Tadas Tumas, who was liquidated in the special operation zone. The corresponding decision was made by the city ...

On the occasion of the great holiday of Easter, the Democratic Union for Integration has congratulated all believers of the Orthodox and Catholic rite who are celebrating today. The DUI has expressed ...

Believers and their baskets containing traditional cakes and painted eggs are blessed by Russian Orthodox priest Father Anastasius, in preparation for an Easter celebration at the St. Boris and ...

Source: SBS Greek/Argyro Vourdoumpa For the faithful of the Russian ... Orthodox and the Catholic Church at the Council of Nicea in 325 AD, the first meeting bringing together representatives from ...

Panagia Vefa, an Orthodox Church where people of all faiths go to make a wish. Video screenshot. Noah Amir Arjomand/You Tube Panagia Vefa is a Greek Orthodox church in Istanbul where, on the first day ...

Patriarch Theophilus III of Jerusalem, according to a centuries-old tradition from Kuvuklia, distributed a particle of fire to all those praying in the ... to more than 50 dioceses of the Russian ...

Lithuania’s Defense Ministry is set to upgrade and fortify a second strategic route across the Suwalki Gap, a key border stretch with Poland seen as a potential flashpoint for Russian aggression ...

From the city of Yekaterinburg in Russia, Lovskiy’s wife, three children, and six grandchildren are all Russian Orthodox. His youngest son is a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church. “ ...

But the two churches started using different calendars after Pope Gregory XIII’s adaptation in 1582, when the Western church adopted the Gregorian calendar while the Eastern Orthodox Church kept ...

"It all depends on the calendar, when the solar and lunar calendars coincide, so to speak. There can be a five-year shift, or there can be a 10-year shift," said the Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church ...