Newark Advocate faith columnist Jeff Gill explores the history of Valentine's Day and how it connects to today's interpretation of the holiday.

The human quest for transcendence and meaning has not disappeared with modernity, but has adapted to the evolving cultural ...

Kyiv region. A Russian strike on February 12 in Ukraine's capital killed one civilian and wounded four others, including a ...

What it did not find time to do was to stop the abuse of children by Catholic priests. A church founded by a man who ...

President Trump raised both hopes and hackles with the formation of a federal task force to root out “anti-Christian bias” within the federal government and the creation of a new White ...

New report on occupied areas of Ukraine says Christians of various denominations forced to convert to Russian Orthodoxy ...

Vice President JD Vance and several bishops of the U.S. Roman Catholic Church are having a war of words over the Trump ...

A new report calls for the Russian Federation to be designated a state sponsor of terrorism, finding that Russia is ...

COMMENTARY: American policy-makers should take this pathology into account when pondering whatever negotiations, or other ...

That brings us to 2025, which will see a remarkable coincidence: Both the Eastern and Western will hold Easter on the same ...

Easter Sunday sometimes falls in late April, because the holiday is not tied to a specific date. As a result, all of the ...

Patriarch Kirill of Russia's Orthodox Church warns of neo-pagan influences in Ukraine's combat zone, urging clergy to counter ...