At the headquarters of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul, Orthodox clergy and faithful welcomed the May 8 election of ...

The peoples of our world desire peace,” Pope Leo XIV said, “and to their leaders I appeal with all my heart: Let us meet, let us talk, let us negotiate! War is never inevitable.” ...

All Roman Catholics ... first in 1054 with the Eastern Orthodox Church and then again with the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. There are an estimated 1.4 billion Catholic adherents around ...

African outreach was among Pope Francis' legacies, observers say, with numerous visits and a message of mercy inspiring fervor among Africa's young.

Typically, the Catholic ... Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. Orthodox Christians follow more ancient liturgical traditions and dogmatic formulations, said Demacopoulos. The Orthodox Church ...

The Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, Daniel, congratulated Pope Leo XIV for succeeding Pope Francis on Thursday, ...

All Roman Catholics ... first in 1054 with the Eastern Orthodox Church and then again with the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. There are an estimated 1.4 billion Catholic adherents around ...

"May he help end wars in Ukraine, the Middle East, and prevent conflict between India and Pakistan," Ecumenical Patriarch ...

For more than 400 years, Catholic and Orthodox churches ... when the Western church adopted the Gregorian calendar while the Eastern Orthodox Church kept the older Julian one.

But while most Western churches calculate the date using the Gregorian calendar introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582, Eastern Orthodox ... The Catholic Church is open to accepting the date ...