Pope Francis indicated that the Catholic Church was willing to accept a common date for celebrating Easter in the West and ...

Barack Obama, Easter Prayer Breakfast 2013 "For flowers that ... where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy." ...

A lot of Easter traditions are connected to food – no meat on Good Friday is a remainder of the numerous fasting days in centuries past; the blessing of Easter baskets on Holy Saturday underlines the ...

The celebration on Jan. 25 marked the solemn conclusion of this year’s Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, which the Pope ...

Many Catholic parishes will give their parishioners a piece of chalk, a small bottle of holy water, and the words for the house blessing so ... we who know Thee by faith may also attain the ...

The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2025 is an occasion to renew faith in Christ as the source of life and unity. Inspired ...

Pope Francis posed Jesus’ question “Do you believe this?” to Christians worldwide during an ecumenical vespers service on Saturday evening.

As Christian churches prepare to mark the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, the Week of Prayer for Christian ...