What is Easter 2026? What is the Easter Sunday date this year? When does Lent end? What we know on Palm Sunday, Maundy ...

There seems no right answer to which way the sign of the cross should be made – either from left to right, as is done in the ...

Maslenitsa is a traditional Russian holiday celebrated ahead of Lent, when people cook and eat a lot of pancakes, sing and ...

The Ecumenical Patriarchate has canonized two Mount Athos monks, recognizing them as saints of the Orthodox Church.

Several churches in the Jacksonville area are hosting traditional Friday Fish Fry events during the Lenten season. See ...

The alleged pipeline is a sign that the Russian state is leveraging its national church’s expansion into Africa.

A Greek Orthodox church in Antakya, Turkey, lies in ruins three years after devastating earthquakes. Architect Buse Ceren Gul is working to restore the 166-year-old church to help reconnect people ...

The Deputy Head of the Office of the Prime Minister of Armenia, Taron Chakhoyan, commented on the information that in ...

The regime of Vladimir Putin is using the Russian Orthodox Church in efforts to repress other faiths not only in Ukraine and ...

Vladimir Putin does not have, like China and Western countries, billions of dollars to build roads, bridges, power plants, mining mines in Africa and ensure his economic influence. Nor does he have ...

CatholicPhilly presents a weekly roundup of international news from Vatican News, the official news portal of the Holy See. The following report on the week of Feb. 15, 2026 links to stories on ...

OSV News: The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) was formally “liquidated” by the Soviet regime in 1946, and only emerged from the underground – where it continued in secret – in 1989. Since that ...