For Christians in the Middle East, this moment carries particular significance. These ancient communities, rooted in lands ...

Francis, who had advocated for peace between the Israelis and Palestinians, visited Israel and the occupied West Bank in 2014 ...

KOCHI: Heads of various churches in Kerala, including Cardinal Baselios Cleemis who will participate in the Papal Conclave to elect the next pope, condoled the ...

The Epitaphio (the symbolic funeral bier of Christ) during a Good Friday at Greek Orthodox Church of St. Athanasios ... then placed near an icon at home and kept all year for good health.

Cyprus has a population of about 1.1 million, nearly 82 percent of whom follow the Greek Orthodox Church and celebrate ... who then carry them around the church while following an icon of Christ. This ...

NBC noted that Mills and Stutzman met Mor Ignatius Aphrem II, “a Syrian-American Christian prelate serving as the Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Damascus, Syria, on Friday.” ...

(AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki) U.S. congressmen Cory Mills (R-FL), left, and Martin Stutzman (R-IN), second from right, meet Mor Ignatius Aphrem II, a Syrian-American Christian prelate serving as the ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria’s president on Saturday received a Republican member of Congress in the first visit to the country by American legislators since the ouster of former leader Bashar ...

Rossella Tercatin is The Times of Israel's archaeology and religions reporter. For nearly 2,000 years, Near East Christian communities have used Syriac, an Aramaic dialect, as their liturgical and ...

But the two churches started using different calendars after Pope Gregory XIII’s adaptation in 1582, when the Western church adopted the Gregorian calendar while the Eastern Orthodox Church kept ...