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Gaza's tiny Christian community tries to capture the holiday spirit during the ceasefire
• Dec. 23, 2025, 4:30 AM ET (AP)
Converts are finding Eastern Orthodoxy online. The church wants to help them commune face-to-face
• Dec. 12, 2025, 7:14 AM ET (AP)
Pope Leo XIV doubles down on insistence for 2-state solution to resolve Israeli-Palestinian conflict
• Nov. 30, 2025, 10:55 AM ET (AP)
Pope visits Istanbul's Blue Mosque without praying as he focuses on unifying Christians
• Nov. 29, 2025, 6:49 PM ET (AP)
Pope joins patriarchs from East and West at historic Christian site in Turkey to pray for unity
• Nov. 28, 2025, 11:32 AM ET (AP)
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Key People
Innocent IV
pope
Michael VIII Palaeologus
Byzantine emperor
Eutyches
Orthodox abbot
Isidore Of Kiev
Greek Orthodox patriarch
Saint Theophilus of Alexandria
Egyptian theologian
Demetrius Cydones
Byzantine scholar and statesman
Theophylact of Ochrid
Greek archbishop
Nicholas I
Byzantine patriarch of Constantinople
John XI Becchus
patriarch of Constantinople
Bessarion
Byzantine theologian
Philotheus Kokkinos
patriarch of Constantinople
Anthony III Studite
patriarch of Constantinople
John VIII Palaeologus
Byzantine emperor
Dioscorus
patriarch of Alexandria
Athanasius I
patriarch of Constantinople
Nicholas III
patriarch of Constantinople
Arsenius Autorianus
patriarch of Constantinople
Athenagoras I
Greek patriarch
George Acropolites
Byzantine statesman and scholar
Anthimus I
Byzantine patriarch