The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said Tuesday that July 24 "is a Day of Mourning" for Hagia Sophia. The former church and museum in Istanbul will that day be inaugurated as a mosque. In a July ...

In Istanbul, Pope Leo XIV will meet the patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church to show amity between two of the world’s largest Christian groups. By Ben Hubbard and Motoko Rich Stephen Hubbard was a ...

Orthodox believers are called to pursue deification, or divine qualities, according to a Russian Orthodox leader. The most powerful way to do this, he says, is through the Eurcharist. Metropolitan ...

Metropolitan Job, the Eastern Orthodox bishop of Pisidia and the permanent representative of the Ecumenical Patriarchate to the World Council of Churches, is attending the Synod on Synodality as a ...

The Eastern Orthodox patriarch of Constantinople has expressed a desire that Christians in the East and the West begin celebrating Easter on a “unified date” rather than adhere to separate Lenten ...

Centuries of dispute between Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches on how to calculate the date of Easter may come to an end if Pope Francis’ latest appeal is implemented. Meeting Nov. 19 with ...

While much of the world has Christmas in the rearview mirror by now, people in some Eastern Orthodox traditions will celebrate the holy day on Sunday. Certain Eastern Orthodox churches, including ...

Archbishop Borys A. Gudziak of the Ukrainian Archeparchy of Philadelphia speaks at a meeting hosted by the Vatican Congregation for Eastern Churches in Rome Feb. 16, 2022. Representatives of Eastern ...

Bishop John M. Botean of the Romanian Catholic Eparchy of St George’s in Canton, Ohio, center, and other bishops of the Eastern Catholic churches in the United States arrive in procession to ...