Eastern and Western churches will celebrate Easter on the same day this year, while marking 1,700 years since the Council of ...

Imagine stepping into a church that looks fully Orthodox—icons, incense, chanting, bearded priests—but it's actually Catholic ...

Orthodox leaders offered their condolences following the death of Pope Francis, remembering his sustained commitment to ...

The fact that we are celebrating together, it's of course, a joy because it is something which is reminding us that we are ...

Pope Francis has made greater unity with the Orthodox a priority of his pontificate; he has especially expressed his desire ...

Reports suggest that churches up and down the country saw a surge in attendance for this year’s Easter services and events.

But as the years go by, the calendars used by churches — the Gregorian calendar by Western Catholics and Protestants and the Julian calendar by Eastern Orthodox churches — continue to diverge.

when the Western church adopted the Gregorian calendar while the Eastern Orthodox Church kept the older Julian one. Moreover, each church uses its own ecclesiastical calculations for lunar cycles ...

when the Western church adopted the Gregorian calendar while the Eastern Orthodox Church kept the older Julian one. Get top local stories in DFW delivered to you every morning with NBC DFW's News ...

when the Western church adopted the Gregorian calendar while the Eastern Orthodox Church kept the older Julian one. Moreover, each church uses its own ecclesiastical calculations for lunar cycles ...