Emma Stuart from Manorcunningham spent her Easter in Athens. In a special feature, she tells us how Holy Week brought ...

Pope Leo XIV adorned a bright red shoulder cover and ornate stole during his introduction on May 8, a contrast from Pope Francis' all-white attire. Cardinal Robert F. Prevost took the name Pope Leo ...

The Chicago-born pontiff—the new spiritual leader of 1.3 billion Catholics and the proprietor in trust of the great art and ...

IF JERUSALEM is to remain, as many see it, the beating heart of Christianity, then it needs its lifeblood: its Christian ...

Pope Leo XIV will begin his first full day as the new pontiff of the Catholic Church by celebrating Mass on Friday at the ...

National Palliative Care Week is in its 30th year, with this year's theme: 'What's your plan?, aiming to encourage ...

In Greece, Orthodox Easter is celebrated with an entire week of festivities ... that Christ had to endure as he passed through the underworld. At midnight, a priest appears holding a lighted candle ...

Proclamation of the Assembly of Orthodox Priests On November 15, 1942, in the church of the village of Srpska Jasenica, within the liberated territory of the Bihać Republic, a major Assembly of ...

Throughout its centuries-long existence, the Hagia Sophia has been a place of worship for many different religions and ...

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, has emerged as an intriguing possibility ahead of ...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Leo XIV has only been in the job one day and already faces a packed schedule of religious ...

Orthodox Church Leader Says Faith Is Humanity's Safeguard Against the 'Impending Robotocracy' ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians has said that ...