Celebrating the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Pope Francis reaffirmed the Catholic Church's willingness to accept a ...

Pope Francis indicated that the Catholic Church was willing to accept a common date for celebrating Easter in the West and ...

During an ecumenical prayer service at St. Paul Outside the Walls to mark the end of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, ...

Believers participate in this bathing tradition during the Orthodox celebration of Epiphany following the Julian calendar.

Pope Francis on Sunday called for a unified Easter date among Christian churches in the spirit of promoting unity. "It is a ...

With these new dates, new traditions have taken shape.

A little bit of snow did not deter the annual tradition of the Ukrainian Christmas Eve Dinner on Sunday at the Ukrainian ...

Francis noted that Easter will fall on the same date in both the Gregorian and Julian calendars this year. “Let us rediscover the common roots of the faith,” he urged. Pope Francis posed Jesus ...

A remote Shetland island is celebrating its New Year's Day - two weeks after other parts of the world. Foula - which is home ...

They initially decided to base it on the solar calendar known as the Julian calendar. Due to miscalculations, the Julian calendar overestimates the solar year by approximately 11 minutes.

Teymour Taj celebrates the beginning of 2025 by exploring the weird and wonderful history of calendars As 2025 rolled in, ...