The specter of schism has hovered in recent years over the Metropolitan Archeparchy of Ernakulam-Angamaly of the Syro-Malabar ...

THRISSUR, KERALA: Mar Aprem Metropolitan, who had led the Assyrian Church of the East in India for five decades, died July 7 ...

The Pope renewed his solidarity with Ukrainian Catholics and the whole nation after intense missile and drone attacks on the east of the country.

The persecution of Christians in Syria, such as the suicide bombing that killed 25 at a Damascus Orthodox church in June, is ...

The yellow and blue of Ukraine stood out most prominently—home to the most significant Eastern-rite Catholic Church, descended from the community of Russian Orthodox in Poland who entered into ...

The inscrutable ways of Divine Providence led to Pope Leo XIV’s first audience in the Paul VI Hall being granted to representatives of the Eastern Catholic Churches, who had gathered in Rome for ...

Pope Leo XIV. Pope Leo XIV appears to have taken to heart a plea from one of his closest neighbors during the conclave--Cardinal Louis Sako, Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Iraq. Seated ...

Pope Leo XIV has appealed for peace in almost every talk he has given since his election on May 8, and today, May 14, he reassured the Christians of the Eastern churches and their pastors, “For ...

While most of the 23 Eastern Rite Catholic Churches in full communion with the Vatican allow married men like me to become priests, the Latin Rite has mandated celibacy since 1139.

A litany of saints was sung out during the funeral Mass for Pope Francis, a meditative chant that is part of the traditional rites. It was followed by a blessing from Eastern rite Catholic ...

A litany of saints was sung out during the funeral Mass for Pope Francis, a meditative chant that is part of the traditional rites. It was followed by a blessing from Eastern rite Catholic ...