VATICAN CITY (CNS) — To promote Christian unity, Catholics and Orthodox must hold firm to the faith handed down by the apostles and witness together to the Gospel as the good news humanity is seeking, ...

Pope Paul VI is the 261st successor of St. Peter as Bishop of Rome; Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople is the 261st successor of St. Andrew, legendary founder of the church there.

Less than a month after beginning to rent space at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church on Saturday evenings, a new Orthodox Christian community — St. Olga Mission — ...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Pope Benedict XVI missed a religious feast in Turkey on Wednesday after Ankara asked him to come at a later date, denying him a chance to pursue his goal of building bridges ...