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 ...

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 ...

When he was a parishioner at St. Rose of Lima in Chelsea, there was one thing Bernard Ba wanted to know from his pastor: The meaning of the phrase ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For three weeks in January, 25 seminarians and two leaders from The St. Paul Seminary in St. Paul traveled and prayed in the ...

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

Orthodox Christians on January 7, and Armenians on January 6, or, in the Holy Land, on January 18. “Now, you can say he walks on water and nobody can do that, so therefore he doesn’t exist.