VATICAN CITY (CNS) — To promote Christian unity, Catholics and Orthodox must hold firm to the faith handed down by the apostles and witness together to the Gospel as the good news humanity is seeking, ...

Common veneration of relics is one of the tools Pope Francis is using to foster ecumenical relations with the Eastern Orthodox Churches. In May, relics of St. Philip and St. Nicholas were transported ...

Cottonwood Heights • Imagine glimpsing the arm of Jesus’ grandmother or a robe from his father — well, stepfather. Now 2,000 years later, you can — right here in Utah — as long as you have a believing ...

ROME—When Pope John Paul II gave a relic of St. Gregory to the Armenian Apostolic Church late last fall, it was more than just the physical transfer of a saint's bodily remains. It was a gesture meant ...

After spending nearly nine decades forgotten in a Moscow storeroom during the Soviet era, some relics of Russian Orthodox St. Serafim of Sarov should soon be circling the globe aboard the ...

Fr. Michael Nicholai pauses to offer the shovel to another clergyman while uncovering the grave of Matushka Olga during the process of her exhumation in Kwethluk on Nov. 16, 2024. (Courtesy Katie ...

The relics of St. Peter of Argos, a tenth-century bishop and miracle-worker, have been returned to the town of which he is patron saint, the Katherimini newspaper reports. The relics were taken to ...

In this photo taken on Friday, May 26, 2017, an Orthodox believer kisses the relics of Saint Nicholas that were brought from an Italian church where they have lain for 930 years, in the Christ the ...

VATICAN CITY, Nov. 27 -- Pope John Paul II on Saturday handed over the bones of two saints to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, in hopes that ...

Russian cosmonaut Sergey Ryzhikov uses a sat phone shortly after landing near Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan Monday, April 10, 2017, on the treeless Central Asian steppes. Russia’s Soyuz MS-02 space capsule ...

ROME – The spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians arrived in the Italian capital Friday night, ahead of a Vatican ceremony for the return of two saints’ relics that were taken to Rome ...

After a two-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic, thousands of Romanian Orthodox believers took to the streets of Bucharest to honor Demetrius the New, the city's patron saint, as part of a ...