Pope Leo XIV vowed to take “every effort” Wednesday to work for peace in the Middle East and Ukraine and to actively promote ...

Pope Leo XIV is vowing to actively promote and protect the spirituality and traditions of the eastern rite churches, those ...

Faith leaders from the Western and Eastern Rite Churches take part in an ecumenical prayer service May 3 to mark ...

Ross Douthat, a Times Opinion columnist, hosted an online conversation with Michael Brendan Dougherty, a senior writer at ...

or even High-Church Anglicans; they are members of the little-known Western Rite of the Orthodox Church. Keeping the Mass. The Western Rite is an Orthodox attempt to restore the cultural balance ...

Many in the Western Church consider Pentecost to be the “Birthday of the Church.” In Orthodox thinking, however, the Church existed from the creation of Adam. Thus, they celebrate the special ...

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov confirmed that a Russian delegation will be in Istanbul on May 15 for direct peace talks with Ukraine. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Putin’s foreign policy aide ...

ESTONIAN legislators have voted, by 60 to 13, to amend the Church and Congregations Act, making it mandatory for the Estonian Christian Orthodox Church, which has ties with Moscow, to cut them ...

Reciting the Creed, Bishop Alberto Rojas of San Bernardino, Calif., leads a group of pilgrims from his diocese in before ...

Easter Sunday had seen many Orthodox leaders reflect on the significance of this year’s common date in Western and Eastern Churches and the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea.

The Roman Catholic Church has around 1.3 to 1.4 billion members worldwide, making it the largest Christian church, according to the figure provided by baptized Catholics. The Eastern Orthodox Church .

However, the whole issue resonates deeply with Greek Orthodox faithful, particularly among conservative members of the Church. It taps into that long story of Byzantium, the difficult Ottoman ...