This year’s relatively balmy temperature drew more than 300 worshipers to the service at the William Penn Memorial Fire Tower in Lower ... day by both the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Western ...

Quiet, village-y capital, Vilnius, was once known as the “Jerusalem of the North” for its Orthodox ... bell tower of Vilnius Cathedral. Picture: Tadras Petrokas/Unsplash St Anne’s Church ...

In the Eastern Orthodox Church ... was a reference to the Aramaic word for “tower,” as in Mary Magdalene was a tower in the Church, much as the apostle Peter is referred to as the rock.

Originally, the iconostasis hung inside a wooden church at the Manyava Orthodox Monastery in the ... rising from churches, a bell tower and a four-story library. Olesya Buczynska-Litwinenko ...

Christians across the globe except followers of the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches celebrated ... gathered in churches to attend mass services. The services continue until the bell that ...

The only Kremlin offer has been a single day of hostility cessation at Easter (to appease the Orthodox Church) and now a ... opportunity to push back Nato in Eastern Europe, I would say going ...

Chicago Landmarks panel approves grant for restoration, and Ald. Anthony Beale says he won’t block its approval in the City ...

after its insurer denied coverage for damage to the church's bell tower after stones fell, causing damage to the tower itself and its sanctuary. Church Mutual claimed the bell tower's fallen ...

Easter Sunday had seen many Orthodox leaders reflect on the significance of this year’s common date in Western and Eastern Churches and the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea.

But as the years go by, the calendars used by churches — the Gregorian calendar by Western Catholics and Protestants and the Julian calendar by Eastern Orthodox churches — continue to diverge.

A $1.2 million grant to restore the aged 92-foot bell tower of Pullman’s historic Greenstone United Methodist Church was unanimously approved Thursday by the Commission of Chicago Landmarks.