Albania’s Orthodox Church has elected Joan Pelushi as its new leader following the death in January of Archbishop Anastasios, who had revived the church after the fall of communism in 1990 ...

(Photo courtesy of CENCO) Police surrounded Catholic and Protestant churches in Kinshasa February 16 following threats made by ruling party militants on social media. The groups were opposed to an ...

There, she worked as a teacher and later became the director of a private school run by the Orthodox Church. It was in Albania that she met Bendo, who was working with the church’s youth group ...

It stated that all of his financial deposits as Archbishop belonged to the Church of Albania, with half of them going towards the completion of the 'Resurrection of Christ' cathedral, while the rest ...

“People migrated out of the city.” This arc of a storied church in what was once a deeply Catholic city has in many ways mirrored what has taken place around the country, as ethnic ...

Bishop Manuel Nin, the apostolic exarch to the Greek Byzantine Catholic Church, called it “unhealthy” to fixate on something that was ultimately “in God’s hands.” But some clerics ...

In a significant act for the head of the Catholic Church, Francis concluded by speaking of non-Catholics who have inspired him: Martin Luther King Jr., Desmond Tutu and Mahatma Gandhi. In his last ...

Every year on Feb. 22, the Catholic Church celebrates the feast of the Chair of St. Peter, a tradition that dates back more than 1,600 years. The feast honors not just a physical chair but what it ...

He also took the oath of fidelity, committing to maintain communion with the Catholic Church, preserve the integrity of the faith and promote ecclesiastical discipline. The Mass was concelebrated ...

She was 81. Sylvia loved to travel to Pennsylvania, Florida and New Hampshire. She was a communicant of Saint Anthony Catholic Church and served as a Eucharistic minister.

The ethnic Albanians entered Balkan history in 1043 when they came from East Sicily and settled in present-day Central Albania by the ... support by the Roman Catholic church in the Independent ...

It supports communities ranging from the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church in India to the Coptic, Eritrean, and Ethiopian Catholic Churches in Africa. CNEWA president Monsignor Peter Vaccari said on ...