Celebrating the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Pope Francis reaffirmed the Catholic Church's willingness to accept a ...

Pope Francis indicated that the Catholic Church was willing to accept a common date for celebrating Easter in the West and ...

During an ecumenical prayer service at St. Paul Outside the Walls to mark the end of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, ...

St. John’s Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Mayfield celebrated Russian Orthodox Christmas on Jan. 7. The church held services ...

Pope Francis on Sunday called for a unified Easter date among Christian churches in the spirit of promoting unity. "It is a ...

With these new dates, new traditions have taken shape.

Francis noted that Easter will fall on the same date in both the Gregorian and Julian calendars this year. “Let us rediscover the common roots of the faith,” he urged. Pope Francis posed Jesus ...

A little bit of snow did not deter the annual tradition of the Ukrainian Christmas Eve Dinner on Sunday at the Ukrainian ...

A remote Shetland island is celebrating its New Year's Day - two weeks after other parts of the world. Foula - which is home ...

They initially decided to base it on the solar calendar known as the Julian calendar. Due to miscalculations, the Julian calendar overestimates the solar year by approximately 11 minutes.