Mykola Bychok is the youngest cardinal in the Catholic Church and the only one with a link to Australia. He will join the ...

The informal Pope aimed to shift influence from Rome into hands of the faithful, the BBC's Aleem Maqbool writes.

This Friday is Jumaa’ al Hazeeneh (Arabic for Good Friday), and to Palestinian Christians this phrase is pregnant with ...

They were actually Coptic, which is the Egyptian language ... you begin to see hierarchies of bishops, priests and deacons emerge in various communities and claim to speak for the majority.

Pope Francis didn’t affirm same-sex marriage or lobby for ordaining women as priests. But he gently steered the Catholic ...

Two Russian ballistic missiles struck the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy on the morning of Palm Sunday, claiming at ...

The Central Bank of Egypt has mandated a two-day suspension of operations for all banks in the country on Sunday, April 20th, and Monday, April 21st, 2025, in observance of Coptic Orthodox Easter and ...

KUWAIT CITY, April 20: The St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Kuwait held the Easter service, which was presided over by His Grace Bishop Antonios -- Bishop of Jerusalem, Kuwait and the Near East.

About six months after he was elected head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis made a surprising admission. A Jesuit priest was interviewing Francis when he departed from a pre-approved list of ...