POTTSTOWN — The holiest days on the Orthodox Christian Church calendar will be celebrated this year with Easter Sunday on May 5. Orthodox Christians typically say “Pascha” when referring to Easter.

The updated version was signed on Nov. 5 by Archbishop Gintaras Grušas of Vilnius, Lithuania, the president of the CCEE, and ...

For many Christians, Easter was celebrated this year on March 31. But for Eastern Orthodox Christians, the celebration of Jesus Christ's Resurrection occurs more than a month later, on May 5. Most ...

For Christians around the world, Easter is a joyous holiday celebrating Jesus' resurrection. Commemorating the possibility of eternal life, many consider it the most important day in Christianity. But ...

Maria Rusu and her husband drove all night from their hometown of Cluj in western Romania to the capital Bucharest to visit ...

(RNS) — Far from clarifying the question of women deacons, the episode added fuel to an already incendiary conversation about women's ordination and the role of women in the church in general. (RNS) — ...

Palestinian Christians say their 2,000-year-old community in the Holy Land has come under increasing attack. JERUSALEM — Orthodox Christians thronged the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem on ...

Greece legalized same-sex civil marriage, making it the first Orthodox Christian country to do so, despite opposition from the Greek Church. A cross-party majority of 176 lawmakers out of 300 voted in ...