This message from Patriarch Bartholomew was read March 17, 2024 in Orthodox parishes ... are encouraged to attend church more frequently. Further reading: Eastern Churches begin period of ...

Catholic and Protestant churches in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are pushing for mediation as conflict escalates in the country’s east. Their efforts to engage all parties, including ...

While we were recording the podcast this week, I told Lutheran Public Radio listeners that I was well aware that much of the ...

TACLOBAN CITY, Philippines — At least 1.6 million tourists visited Eastern Visayas last year and its contribution to the economy cannot be underestimated. These statements came from Karina Rosa ...

While Pentecost comes on a Monday, the previous Sunday is the scene of late-night vigils at many Orthodox churches. Churches may be adorned with flowers and other greenery, priest wear green too, and ...

The Rwanda-backed rebel group M23 has seized swathes of mineral-rich eastern Congo since the start of the year. Sign up here. "M23 has taken Nyabiondo since 11 a.m. (0900 GMT), following clashes ...

At least 14 people have been killed in overnight attacks on Ukraine’s eastern region, where Russia has intensified its assault in recent days. Ukraine’s emergency service said on Saturday that ...

As it has done for the last several years, St. Hugh of Lincoln Episcopal Church in Elgin offered Christians a unique way to start the Lenten season by dispensing ashes via a drive-thru lane rather ...

Parts of Hackney’s Orthodox Jewish community have hit out against “excessive state intervention” in the borough’s faith schools, claiming new legislation could “erode religious freedom”.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (Iowa's News Now) — Some churches canceled services for Ash Wednesday due to winter weather in eastern Iowa. More changes may be coming depending on conditions outside through ...

One of the medieval fortified churches can be found in Kurdějov|Photo: RomanM82, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 In their Latin language, the Romans had the word castellum, which meant ‘fortress’.