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This year is a year full of signs of Christian unity, even in the midst of great divisions and breaches in unity culturally and politically. Although ...

Christians around the world will celebrate on the same day this year, a relative rarity. Pope Francis would like to make it ...

This special deep dive episode of “Inside the Vatican” unravels what made the Council of Nicaea groundbreaking 1,700 years ...

The Easter long weekend is coming, which will mean a few days off for many Australians regardless of their religion.

COMMENTARY: The Council of Nicaea gave Christianity more than a creed — it gave the Church a way to calculate Easter. But ...

This resonates with the ecumenical vision of a Church that is united.

The holiday of Pesach, or Passover, falls on the Hebrew calendar dates of Nissan 15-22. Passover begins before sundown on ...

In our society, it sometimes seems that Easter has been reduced to a celebration of chocolate bunnies, fake grass and eggs.

Here’s why Easter falls a little later than usual this year, on 4/20, and how the mid-April day became an unofficial holiday ...

Church leaders push for a common Easter date, as they seek to bridge centuries-old divisions between Eastern and Western ...

In 2025, all Christians will rejoice on the same Easter Sunday. The last time Catholics and Orthodox Christians celebrated ...