The shocking story of Metropolitan Ioannis of Korça - He was the first bishop ordained by Archbishop Anastasios, became his ...

This is what the early Christians believed about Christ and what the apostles and early church leaders taught. These central beliefs are included in the Nicene and Apostles Creed, and are some of the ...

David Tudor (l), who has now been banned for life from the Church of England, was pictured talking to Stephen Cottrell, then Bishop of Chelmsford, in 2014 A woman who says she was sexually abused ...

Indulgences are pardons believed to eliminate earthly suffering or time in purgatory — where the Catholic Church teaches that people who have confessed their sins are purified before entering ...

Father Sergio Pérez, superior of the Community of the Institute of the Incarnate Word established on the site of the baptism of Jesus ... with the care of the Catholic church on the site known ...

The new church, one of the largest Catholic churches in the Middle East, commemorates the place where the public ministry of Jesus began. “This place, which is the holy place of the baptism of ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. In what has become an annual tradition that marks the end of the Christmas holiday period at the Vatican ...

"This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased" (Matthew 3:17). This verse is from the Gospel of Matthew, one of the three synoptic Gospels in the New Testament of the Bible, and is about the ...

The Vatican secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Friday consecrated a new Catholic church at ... inaugurated and consecrated the Church of the Baptism of the Lord at Al-Maghtas, known ...

and fidelity to Jesus Christ and his Church. For 24 years, the Catholic community in the region has made a pilgrimage, gathering around its patriarch, to celebrate the baptism of Jesus on Jan. 12.