This formal dialogue was launched in 1981 with the first meeting of the Lutheran-Orthodox Joint Commission in Finland ... Justification and Synergy” (1998), “Baptism and Chrismation as Sacraments of ...

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Agios Nektarios was born on October 1st, 1846 in Silyvria, in Smyrni. At Holy Baptism, he was given the name Anastasios. His ...

Baptist: it’s one of the most well-known denominations in Protestant Christianity and is aptly named after its main belief in believer’s baptism, where a person chooses to publicly proclaim their ...

New York, New York — By the grace of God, Orthodox Christianity is spreading across the prisons of the United States. But what about people who were baptized Orthodox Christians before they were ...

In three key swing districts in New York’s Hudson Valley, candidates are pressing for the support of ultra-Orthodox Jews, who tend to vote as a bloc. By Nicholas Fandos Reporting from Monsey ...

(RNS) — After the first Ukrainian-language liturgy was celebrated at St. Michael’s Cathedral in Cherkasy in central Ukraine on Thursday (Oct. 17), rival groups of Orthodox Christians clashed ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Brother Luke, an Orthodox Christian monk, holds his 10-week-old German shepherd Pyrena on the grounds of the ...

The number of Catholics and permanent deacons in the world rose in 2022, while the number of seminarians, priests, men and women in religious orders, and baptisms declined, according to Vatican ...

While the number of Catholics is increasing, the administration of the sacrament of baptism has decreased worldwide. It fell from 17,932,891 baptisms administered in 1998 to 13,327,037 in 2022 ...

CNS photo/Justin McLellan The number of Catholics and permanent deacons in the world rose in 2022, while the number of seminarians, priests, men and women in religious orders, and baptisms declined, ...

Violent clashes erupted between parishioners from rival Orthodox churches on October 17 as they battled for control of St. Michael's Cathedral in the central Ukrainian city of Cherkasy. The ...