LEADERS of the Roman Catholic and the Eastern Orthodox Churches are signalling their openness to setting a common date for ...

study reveals This video shows Catholics flagellating themselves and carrying wooden crosses in re-enacting the last hours of Jesus Christ. This bloody Easter ritual was filmed today in North ...

Patriarch Bartholomew backed the permanent establishment of the celebration of Easter by the Orthodox and Catholic Churches ...

and warned Catholics of the dire spiritual consequences of membership of such organisations. In the period immediately after the events of Easter week seven bishops and a number of priests ...

Hi everybody. NATHAN: Lara is 13. She's a Catholic Christian. The Via Dolorosa is really crowded and especially during Easter because all of the tourist come and walk the same way Jesus walked.

Pope Francis led the Easter Mass at St Peter's Square in Vatican City on Easter Sunday - Christianity's holiest day. Catholics gathered after sunset in the village of Ragotna, Belarus, to kindle ...

Filipino Catholics have nailed themselves on crosses and carried out gruesome acts of self-inflicted pain to mark Holy Week. A Philippine man who has been nailed to a cross every Easter for the ...

Men dressed as devils - "talciguines" - whip the Catholic faithful in a playful Easter tradition in El Salvador. The event in the town of Texistepeque is meant to symbolise the triumph of good ...