The Rev. Nicholas Jonas says he was in disbelief when he saw tears streaming down the face of a painting of Mary holding the child Jesus in his chapel. “When these things happen, I feel like a little ...

Catholic and Orthodox Christians -- and a few Protestants, too -- will celebrate Tuesday the taking up of Jesus' mother from earth to heaven. The Western church refers to it as the Solemnity of the ...

St. Mary’s Orthodox Cathedral was completed in 1906. It is the home church of a small community of Rusyns (also called Ruthenians or Carpatho-Ruthenians) who immigrated to Minneapolis from the ...

Highlights of the first day of May 31-June 2 papal journey. Pope Francis prays the Our Father with Daniel, Orthodox patriarch of Romania, in the Romanian Orthodox new cathedral in Bucharest May 31.

Today Orthodox believers are celebrating the great feast of the Nativity of Christ, known as Christmas. In their writings, ...

Honoring traditions dating back to the Council of Nicea in 395 A.D., Orthodox Christians around the world observed Holy Pascha, the feast of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, on Sunday with music and ...

Orthodox Christmas, or the Nativity of Jesus, is celebrated on Jan. 7 by many Eastern Orthodox churches that follow the ...