Eight new members were received into the Orthodox Church of Cuba during a mass baptism at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox ...

Lebanon was majority-Christian starting from the first century (when Christianity was introduced by figures such as St. Peter ...

When the church was built, Gallaway had commissioned a local craftsman to build the “iconostase,” another required feature of ...

In the minds of children across Europe, he is Sinterklaas (Holland) or Mikulas (Hungary), and he brings them small presents on his feast day, Dec. 6. He does the same for Eastern Christian children ...

The liturgy of the Syriac rite is attributed to St. James the Apostle. This liturgy was used by the church in Antioch in present day Syria. Many bishops in this area also broke away after the Council ...

We are two brothers from Melbourne, Greeks of this generation, one eighteen and one seventeen, visiting Mount Athos for the ...

Eastern Orthodoxy in the U.S. is experiencing a surge in converts, partly due to online content. The Very Rev. Andreas Blom ...

The Catholic American Bible is set to replace the New American Bible Revised Edition in 2027, becoming the common text for ...

With a large majority of Greek Catholic parishes in Slovakia observing the Gregorian calendar, most Byzantine Christians in the country are due to celebrate 'Rozhdestvo Isusa Christa' ('Nativity of ...

In the whole Hebrew Bible the full appellation ‘El Shaddai’ is used only in connection with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Shaddai by itself also appears 31 times in the ancient book of Prophet Job, who ...

As we face a changing past, Jason Berry looks back on years of reporting on clerical abuse, and reflects on the influence of the beloved dead: a jazz-playing Jesuit, and Berry's daughter Ariel, whose ...

Saturday Live Nativity: with live actors and animals from 5 to 8 p.m. at Christ Church North Bay at 6965 Redwood Blvd. in Novato. Go to ccnb.org. Monday Nativity prefeast: presented by St. Nicholas ...