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The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity began January 18. Once a major obstacle for other Christian churches, the primacy of ...

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Denis Pogrebnoy from Karelia posted poems about 'foreign agents' and political prisoners on his social media page.

Known for neo-realist films depicting the broken American dream, director Sean Baker’s “Anora” earned him his first Cannes ...

The year just ending – 2024 – most certainly was exceptional and will make ... However, the calendar showed snags due to leap years and difficulty in determining when Easter was. Thus Pope Gregory ...

Artist Beshoy Zaraa describes the tradition of painting the Christian story of the nativity of Jesus in Egyptian art to Al-Ahram Weekly.

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The year 2024 is coming to an end and 2025 is ahead ... Russia for example still follows the Julian calendar because the Orthodox Church does not recognise the Pope. So when Gregory XIII wanted ...

TASS-FACTBOX. On January 19, Orthodox believers in Russia celebrate Epiphany, or the Baptism of the Lord, one of the 12 major Christian holidays (along with Easter) dogmatically connected with the ...

It is perhaps understandable why the Justice Department, which has spent years obsessing about white supremacists, allegedly the greatest threat to our way of life; orthodox Catholics; pro-lifers ...

The number of Christians persecuted worldwide jumped to 380 million last year, and while North Korea and Somalia remained the ...