Pope Francis' efforts to improve relations with the Georgian Orthodox Church suffered a public setback Saturday after the patriarchate decided not to send an official delegation to his Mass and repeated that Orthodox faithful cannot participate in Catholic ...

Pope Leo XIV has visited Istanbul’s Blue Mosque without praying there as he focused on strengthening ties with Orthodox patriarchs.

Hundreds of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews descended on Jerusalem on Sunday to protest a bill that would require members of their community to serve in the Israel Defense Forces. Israeli media estimated that between 250,000 to 400,000 people attended the ...

Catholic and Orthodox Christians share the same prayer when making the sign of the cross, but they have distinct ways of doing it.

TBILISI (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Saturday said Mass for unusually small crowd of just a few thousand Catholics in Georgia, a celebration that was further dampened when a delegation from the Orthodox Church stayed away. Ex-Soviet Georgia is ...

TBILISI, Georgia -- Pope Francis' efforts to improve relations with the Georgian Orthodox Church suffered a setback Saturday after the patriarchate decided not to send an official delegation to his Mass and reminded the Orthodox faithful they cannot ...

Worshippers have hailed Pope Leo XIV's visit to Turkey after he held a divine liturgy with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in Istanbul on Sunday in a gesture of support for Christian unity.