The festival is held every year, right before the June 13 feast of the church's patron, St. Anthony of Padua. Padua was a Portuguese Catholic priest and Franciscan friar, also known as the patron ...

The Orthodox faithful in Greece mark the Monday of the Holy Spirit, a public holiday, especially for schools and public ...

Anthony's Feast Days will be held ... need to know about the three-day event. The first two days of the festival will begin at 5 p.m. and end at 9 p.m. The church is serving traditional Italian ...

Pope Leo XIV urges a common Easter date for Catholics and Orthodox at a Vatican symposium marking 1,700 years since the ...

On May 21, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church marks the feast day of St.St. Constantine and Helena - an event with deep religious and cultural significance. These two saints, revered as Equal-to-the ...

For those (arch)dioceses that do not mark today as the Ascension, the liturgical calendar allows celebration of the optional ...

Several concrete solutions have been proposed that, while respecting the principle of Nicaea, would allow Christians to ...

The International Orthodox Festival Radost (Joy) will kick off in Polotsk on 5-15 June. It will take place at the open-air ...

Pentecost Sunday is one of movable feasts in the Church calendar. This is because it depends on the date of Easter. In the Church calendar it falls seven Sundays or 50 days after Easter Sunday.

By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service The Council of Nicaea 1,700 years ago recognized that Christian unity had to be based ...

Pope Leo XIV meets with participants in the Symposium “Nicaea and the Church of the Third Millennium: Towards ...

Christian unity will not be “primarily the fruit of our own efforts, nor will it be realized through any preconceived model ...