On Monday evening, Serbians will welcome the New Year according to the Julian calendar, marking the occasion 13 days after the widely observed Gregorian calendar New Year. The main church in Serbia is ...
Celebrating the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Pope Francis reaffirmed the Catholic Church's willingness to accept a proposal for a common date for celebrating Easter in the West and the East.
Happy February 29! It doesn’t come round very often, so make sure you enjoy it. But why do we have these extra days? Well, if we didn’t, the seasons would ...
The second Islamic caliph, Umar I, set up the Islamic calendar by 638 AD in Arabia. As per this calendar, a new year starts on 1 Muharram with the appearance of the first crescent moon. It began on ...