İZNIK, Turkey (RNS) — For Christian leaders across the world and across denominations, the anniversary of the first Council of Nicaea is providing an opportunity for introspection and, potentially, ...

From the beginning of his election as the successor to St. Peter, Pope Leo XIV has summoned the Church to a renewed faith in the one Savior. As he said emphatically in the opening Mass of his ...

ANKARA, Turkey — Seeking to unify a recently decriminalized faith, Roman emperor Constantine the Great called a summit of early Christians in the ancient Anatolian city of Nicaea. The then-nascent ...

A wall fresco depicting the First Council of Nicaea in the Sistine Hall of the Vatican Library. (CNS photo/Carol Glatz) The church universal this year celebrates the 1,700th anniversary of the Council ...

Icon from the Mégalo Metéoron Monastery in Greece, representing the First Ecumenical Council of Nikea 325 A.D., with the condemned Arius in the bottom of the icon. (Credit: Wikimedia.) Listen As the ...

A wall fresco depicting the First Council of Nicaea in the Sistine hall of the Vatican Library. (CNS photo/Carol Glatz) The various liturgical calendars in use throughout most of Christianity feature ...

ISTANBUL (RNS) — Before the newly resurfaced ruins of the Basilica of Neophytos, Pope Leo XIV joined with Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, hoping to recover the same spirit of unity that once ...

Visitors look at tombs at archaeological excavations of the ancient Byzantine-era Christian Saint Neophytos Basilica, in Iznik, also known by its ancient name Nicaea, northwestern Turkey, Thursday, ...

Although the ancient city of Nicaea lies in ruins and the geographic center of Christianity has shifted West, Pope Leo XIV and Christian leaders gathered at an archaeological site in Turkey to ...

A Catholic archbishop in Turkey has termed the commemoration of the 1700 th anniversary of the Ecumenical Council of Nicaea as “an opportunity for ecumenical dialogue and unity.” Archbishop Martin ...