The increasingly powerful Russian Orthodox Church has built hundreds of new churches over the past decade. But some people in ...

June 1 marks Global Coptic Day, a worldwide celebration of the rich history and enduring faith of the Coptic Orthodox Church.

Because of the growing tendency within the episcopate of the Serbian Orthodox Church to accept simplified ... itself — the glorification at the altar of kneeling before occupiers, masked as ...

The cardinals would sit in a hall in a half circle with the dean of the college of cardinals, the Italian Giovanni Battista, ...

In an event Monday honoring a Romanian Greek Catholic cardinal and martyr known for his efforts to save Jews during the ...

Pope Leo I tangled with Attila the Hun and won. Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne as the first Holy Roman Emperor. This is the history of a legendary papal namesake.

While other students might be in class or socializing at lunch, a group of young Catholics attends Mass every weekday at noon ...

An image of our Mother of Good Counsel from the Italian Sanctuary of Genazzano, which Leo visited on May 10 in one of his first acts as pope, was placed to the left of the altar. “This is the ...

Whether Jesus was held to the cross with nails or with ropes, what matters is that he was ingloriously and brutally killed by Rome. Behold this dying man! shout all four of the gospels, in (and let’s ...

Sixty-year-old Kaduna-based trader, Sylvester Ebere-Ndubuisi, tells GRACE EDEMA how his 14-year-old son, Gabriel, died from a ...

The historical area centers around Saint Menas, who died in the early days of Christianity and is buried at the site that was inscribed in 1979 on the list of globally treasured natural and cultural s ...

The Greek Orthodox Church of the Pantocrator in Patras, Greece, stands out for having been modeled after Hagia Sophia in Constantinople.