Holy water is also removed from the fonts in ... Holy Week is the same in the eastern and western Church, but because eastern Christians use the Julian Calendar to calculate Easter, the ...

37 In the Eastern rites the Christian initiation of infants ... asks God that through his Son the power of the Holy Spirit may be sent upon the water, so that those who will be baptized in it ...

Trump's call to 'clear out' Gaza has sparked anger in Amman, with well-placed sources telling Middle East Eye that the US ...

Prologue For about a millennium the Mongol Turks have been targeting the Greeks. The Mongol Turks first appeared in the ...

God’s people here are enmeshed in all the challenges of this wilderness: the hunt for drinkable water, secure homesteads ... programs in western Uganda, eastern Congo, and central Burundi.

CNEWA, established in 1926 by Pope Pius XI to support the Eastern churches, administers the Pontifical ... Hazboun is also deeply concerned about the dwindling numbers of Christians left in the Holy ...

For three weeks in January, 25 seminarians and two leaders from The St. Paul Seminary in St. Paul traveled and prayed in the footsteps of the seminary’s patron saint in Greece and Turkey, experiencing ...

As a teenager, Peter Achermann left war-torn Europe and made a fresh start in the U.S. He had written he hoped for a peaceful ...

And I would call on all Christian pastors ... raised her seven children in a 12-foot-by-12-foot shack with no running water on the side of a mountain. I cannot forget little Marilin and her ...

LEADER — On Friday, July 24, 2009, Peter Achermann left his Leader home to pick up groceries and his wife's medications in ...

Defending Indigenous communities' rights to land, water and ... of Prayer for Christian Unity, Pope Francis reiterated the official position taken by St. Paul VI that if Eastern Christians agree ...

Before Rome awoke, the jurisconsult supervised the grooming of an Indian white elephant, an “exotic” marvel meant to match ...