During the season of rebirth, clerics  geared their sermons toward picking up the pieces. The faithful reflected on faith ...

Because Easter fell on the same day on the Julian and Gregorian calendars, meaning Catholic and Orthodox were celebrating on the same day, the Vatican added Byzantine “stichera” or hymns and “stichos” ...

Christians today celebrate their holiest day, Easter Sunday, which commemorates the Resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. Easter has long been a mix of the secular and the sacred, of candy, flowers and ...

For reasons having more to do with modern secular culture and commerce than religious significance, Christmas is more ...

QURAYE, Lebanon (AP) — It’s become a Good Friday tradition in Quraye: residents and visitors converging on the southern ...

To purposefully ride the rollercoaster alongside the disciples and Jesus—the mixture of vomit and death and life, blood and sweat and tears. Holy Week began last week with Palm Sunday at the start of ...

According to a recent Gallup poll, “hope” is the top attribute used to describe positive leaders. The study showed hope is the most important quality people are looking for in a leader worldwide. I ...

The Easter story is one of a king laying down his life for what the people needed, even as they mocked and crucified him, ...

In that resurrection life we experience with joy how the chains which bind our fallen nature are broken. We also grasp how that can only happen through the most extreme sacrifice the universe could ...

The basic facts of The Gospel (Christ’s death, burial, and even his resurrection) are established as matters of history ...

By Renee Scheidt Early Sunday morning, Mary Magdalene and a few other women arrived at the tomb where Jesus was buried. Only three days earlier, they had watched in anguish as their Master died. Now, ...