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India has had a thriving community of Eastern Orthodox Christians, brought by Saint Thomas the Apostle to India.

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St. John died in a building behind the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral on Capitol Hill. The room where he died is a ...

With the holy commemorations of Good Friday and Easter for Roman Catholics, Orthodox Greeks and other Christian denominations ...

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ROME, Metropolitan City of Rome Capital — In the last 18 months of his life, Pope Francis had a frequent evening ritual: He ...

Pope Francis, a reformer who rattled the Catholic Church's conservatives and inspired some progressives, has died.