There is a country that follows a different calendar than the rest of the world and does not live in 2025, but in 2017. Its ...

Pope Francis has renewed his proposal for the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church to have a common date to celebrate Holy ...

Noting that in 2025 the date coincides on the West's Gregorian calendar and the East's Julian calendar ... gradually "drifted" away from the actual equinox. In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII reformed the ...

A majority of Russian Orthodox churches worldwide use the Julian calendar, which celebrates Christmas on Jan. 7, instead of using the Gregorian calendar proposed by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582.

Pope Francis indicated that the Catholic Church was willing to accept a common date for celebrating Easter in the West and ...

Pope Francis on Sunday called for a unified Easter date among Christian churches in the spirit of promoting unity. "It is a happy coincidence that Easter in this ecumenical Jubilee Year is celebrated ...

During an ecumenical prayer service at St. Paul Outside the Walls to mark the end of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, ...

The Romans added January and February to the calendar but ran into a problem — math and superstition. Here's why February became the odd month out.

Foula - which is home to fewer than 40 people - never fully adopted the modern Gregorian calendar ... miles long More than four centuries ago, Pope Gregory XIII designed the calendar used today ...

Before the Gregorian calendar used today ... Eventually, the calendar we all know was adopted by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582, and it's changed little since then — not that the system is flawless.