Holy Week is marked by deep devotion, with church services and community gatherings uniting Christians in Eastern Europe. Special prayers and liturgies further enrich the spiritual atmosphere ...

Following the centuries-old tradition, some of the faithful stopped first at the Franciscan cathedral to pray before walking ...

Communist takeovers of certain countries in Eastern Europe strained relations between the mother churches and their American branches. Questions of allegiance and politics divided parishioners. In one ...

One of the most important shifts in history was the spread of Christianity by the Greeks from the Byzantine Empire into ...

Catholicism continued to grow outside Europe ... the centre of power in the church. But demographically and institutionally, the faith is shifting south and east—along with the growing number ...