Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. Cyprus has a population of about 1.1 million, nearly 82 percent of whom follow the Greek Orthodox Church and celebrate Easter accordingly, ...

The Union of Brest marks the critical moment when most leaders of the Ruthenian Orthodox Church, situated within the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (in areas of modern Ukraine and Belarus), decided to ...

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has formally charged 14 high-ranking metropolitans and archbishops of the Russian Orthodox Church for their involvement in the illegal seizure of Ukrainian ...

About six months after he was elected head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis made a surprising admission. A Jesuit priest was interviewing Francis when he departed from a pre-approved list of ...

Christ is the embodiment of compassion. The Pope's journey as the head of the Catholic Church was by creating the springs of humanity that Christ taught through his life. Therefore, the Pope ...

Moscow, Apr 21 (PTI) A top official of the Moscow Patriarchate has lauded the role played by late Pope Francis in developing contacts of Catholics with the Russian Orthodox Church. Pope Francis died ...

Among the many milestones of his papacy, one stands out - his meeting with the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill. On February 12, 2016, Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill met in ...

Pope Francis, a voice for the poor who overcame fierce resistance to reshape the Catholic Church, died of a stroke and heart failure on Easter Monday at the age of 88, the Vatican announced.

The conflict brought relations between the Vatican and the Russian Orthodox Church to a new low in 2022 when Francis said its head, Patriarch Kirill, who supported the conflict, should not act ...

Pope worked greatly towards bridging the thousand-year rift with the Eastern Orthodox Church. For the first time since the Great Schism of 1054, the Patriarch of Constantinople attended the ...

Because of complex relations with the Orthodox church in Russia, for example, he resisted criticizing Vladimir Putin by name over the Ukraine invasion. And because of China’s vast population ...

Oman said it mediated a ceasefire deal between Yemen's Houthis and the U.S., marking a major shift in the Iran-aligned group's policy since the start of Israel's war in Gaza in October 2023 ...