BYZANTINE RITE CATHOLICS. The Byzantine Rite Catholic Church resulted from efforts by the Roman Catholic Church to convert Eastern Orthodox Christians in the old Austro-Hungarian Empire during the ...

Upwards of 10,000 haredi Orthodox Jewish men protested on Sunday night outside the Israeli consulate in New York City against the conscription of Orthodox Jews in the Israeli military. The protest, ...

Imagine the 13th century. Lithuania—Europe’s last pagan bastion, surrounded by crusaders from the west and Orthodox principalities from the east. This was a time when the fate of entire nations was ...

His image looks like it came straight out of a rock concert. A black AC/DC T-shirt — the trademark of a band that sings about the devil and hell, with millions of ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - For the first time in more than 20 years, the Kumulipo, Hawaii’s renowned cosmogonic genealogical chant, will be performed in its entirety, all 2,102 lines, by five hālau in ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The cry of innocent victims and mothers mourning their children will not go unheard, Pope Leo XIV said. When Christians chant “the Easter Alleluia, ‘Christ is risen! He is truly ...

President Dallin H. Oaks recently encouraged members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to start using the Easter greeting: “Christ is risen! Indeed, He is risen!” At first glance, ...

Thessaloniki, Greece — Crime-solving techniques applied to a medieval illuminated manuscript in Paris may have solved a centuries-old puzzle — the true identity of a leading Byzantine painter who ...

Crime-solving techniques applied to a medieval illuminated manuscript in Paris may have solved a centuries-old puzzle - the true identity of a leading Byzantine painter who injected humanity into the ...