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The practice dates back to the first century CE, when Pope Nicholas I declared that Catholics were required to abstain from eating meat on Fridays in memory of the death and crucifixion of Christ.

A. James Rudin will become the ninth Jewish person to receive the honor in the Order’s nearly 200-year history.

Archbishop of Westminster Cardent Vincent Nichols (Roman Catholic) and Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Wellby (Church of England) have come out against relocating the British Embassy to Jerusalem.

Whether it be church, synagogue, mosque or a different house of worship, scientists agree that going to services is good for your health.

The war in Ukraine provided the backdrop to the pope's visit to Kazakhstan, where he attended a congress of religious leaders from around the world.

The pope and the Patriarch have met once, in Cuba in 2016 - the first meeting between a pope and a leader of the Russian Orthodox Church since the Great Schism of 1054.

A commission investigating child sexual abuse by Catholic clergy in the Iberian nation has collected around 350 testimonies since it started its work in January.

In Canada, between 1881 and 1996, more than 150,000 indigenous children were separated from their families and brought to residential schools.

The attitude of the Catholic Church to women, abortion and to sex in general is not new. It is very much a part of its long history

Roman Catholics, Orthodox Jews address reconciliation in the 20th century