VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Celebrating the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Pope Francis reaffirmed the Catholic Church’s willingness to accept a proposal for a common date for celebrating Easter in the ...

On Monday evening, Serbians will welcome the New Year according to the Julian calendar, marking the occasion 13 days after the widely observed Gregorian calendar New Year. The main church in Serbia is ...

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While for Zelenskyy, it was a political move to distance Ukraine’s Orthodox Church from its Russian heritage, it reveals how sections of the Eastern Orthodox Church still followed the Julian calendar ...