Celebrating the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Pope Francis reaffirmed the Catholic Church's willingness to accept a ...

During an ecumenical prayer service at St. Paul Outside the Walls to mark the end of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, ...

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

Believers participate in this bathing tradition during the Orthodox celebration of Epiphany following the Julian calendar.

With these new dates, new traditions have taken shape.

A little bit of snow did not deter the annual tradition of the Ukrainian Christmas Eve Dinner on Sunday at the Ukrainian ...

Pope Francis on Sunday called for a unified Easter date among Christian churches in the spirit of promoting unity. "It is a ...

A remote Shetland island is celebrating its New Year's Day - two weeks after other parts of the world. Foula - which is home ...

Unlike many festivals and celebrations which have a set date (Christmas and Halloween, for example), the date of Easter can ...

They initially decided to base it on the solar calendar known as the Julian calendar. Due to miscalculations, the Julian calendar overestimates the solar year by approximately 11 minutes.

Celebrating the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Pope Francis reaffirmed the Catholic Church's willingness to accept a proposal for a common date for celebrating Easter in the West and the East.

Happy February 29! It doesn’t come round very often, so make sure you enjoy it. But why do we have these extra days? Well, if we didn’t, the seasons would ...