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(RNS) — The story of the Rev. Hilarion Alfeyev captures how a once robust effort to bring Russian Orthodox Christianity and the Catholic Church together has foundered. (RNS) — Diplomacy is back.

This year, Orthodox Easter will be observed on the same day as the Western one: Sunday, 20 April. The shared date is relatively rare as the churches use different calendars. Orthodox Easter is ...

Preparations for Orthodox Easter are underway at the Bachkovo Monastery in southern Bulgaria, the second largest and one of the oldest in the country. Easter is the most important holiday in the ...

The Orthodox and Catholic Churches have a united celebration in 2025, for the first time in eight years. Father John Basarab, pastor of Epiphany of Our Lord Byzantine Catholic Church, celebrates ...

The Supreme head of the Syriac Orthodox Church anointed the new leader of their Church in India during a solemn ceremony in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, on March 25. Mor Ignatius Aphrem II, the ...

The Pixel 9a is getting a second set of wallpapers, with light and dark variants for every color of the device The wallpapers might be a result of a collaboration of some kind, but we don’t ...

Ben Christenson was raised Anglican — church every Sunday, a religious school, and Christian camp every summer. But Christenson, 27 of Fairfax, Virginia, always found himself longing for a more ...

Stalker 2 will force you to make a bunch of tough choices, and one of the first will be who to give the Orthodox icon to: Mityay or Pomor. Both of these men would like to keep the painting ...

One day after the Harris campaign announced that 33 “Orthodox rabbis” had endorsed her candidacy, more than 50 Orthodox rabbis signed this letter, firmly backing President Trump. The letter ...

As the election race between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris heats up, both sides are vying for the Jewish vote. One day after the Harris campaign announced that 33 “Orthodox rabbis” had ...