I began Holy Week in a Cairo mosque after a memorial service. Meeting my extended relatives, I thought about how a father's ...

In a historic moment for Greece, the chant of “Christos Anesti” rang through St. Peter’s Basilica at Pope Francis’ funeral, ...

They say, though I’m not exactly sure who “they” are, that the joy of Easter is heightened by walking the walk of Jesus ...

Syria, Christians filled churches during Holy Week, defying fears of jihadist attacks. Under the protection of armed police ...

The majority of Christians have just come through the Lenten season to celebrate Easter. The liturgical calendar of our Orthodox siblings is slightly ... The church slows the time even more in the ...

Orthodox Easter occurs anywhere from mid-April to early May. Easter is celebrated in Cyprus as the holiest day of the Christian year and the whole of Holy Week, from Palm Sunday till Easter Sunday, is ...

Christians from around the world prayed for Pope Francis at a solemn Mass on Wednesday at Jerusalem's centuries-old Church of the Holy Sepulchre following the pontiff's passing this week.

Pope Francis died Monday at age 88. The Vatican said Francis suffered a stroke which led to a coma and his heart to fail, as he recovered from a five-week hospitalization for double pneumonia.

On April 20, Christians across Ukraine and around the world—Protestants, Catholics, and Orthodox—celebrated Easter together ... Finally, he blesses the people and their paskas with holy water, ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican celebrated Easter on Sunday without Pope Francis presiding, as the 88-year-old pontiff continues his recovery from a near-fatal bout of double pneumonia.

The pews of the St. Catherine Church in Bethlehem were full and it was standing room only, as parishioners dressed in colorful Easter finery filled in for the Easter ...

Earlier in the week, the Latin Patriarchate of ... Hawa said they had opted to spend Easter Sunday in Bethlehem rather than at the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem after trying to attend the Orthodox Holy ...