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Byzantine Catholic church community gathers to pray for the people of Ukraine who are under attack from Russia.

(RNS) — The message of Lent, no matter how or where it is celebrated, remains the same.

Russian President Vladimir Putin laid out his version of Ukraines history, saying essentially that Ukraine was always part of Russia. While that serves his purpose, it is also a fiction.

As a misreading of history, the claim that Ukraine was invented by Lenin was extreme even by the standards of Putin.

Analysis: Putin's take on history may lay groundwork for war | 2022-02-22 13:07:57

Sorrow for the dead and dying, fear of more infections to come and hopes for an end to the coronavirus pandemic were — again — the bittersweet cocktail with which the world said good riddance to 2021 and ushered in 2022.

People celebrate the end of 2021 and the beginning of 2022 in New Years Eve events around the world.

Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the world welcomed 2022 with largely reduced crowds and fireworks amid the spread ...

New Years Eve, which used to be celebrated globally with a free-spirited wildness, felt instead like a cas...

President Joe Biden and the spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox Christians discussed ways to fight climate change and to end the coronavirus pandemic as well as the importance of religious freedom during an Oval Office session Monday.