Timekeeping is one of humanity's oldest and most important endeavors. For centuries, societies have developed systems to ...

For the church, one of the most pressing issues caused by this was the difficulty in calculating the date of Easter each year ...

The love for tradition kept the Eastern Orthodox Church from adopting the Gregorian calendar though it was based on reason ...

BRITAIN’S remotest community will finally celebrate Christmas tomorrow. And islanders will also see in the New Year nearly ...

Christmas is celebrated by the Russian, Georgian, Jerusalemite, Polish and Serbian Orthodox churches, the Athos monasteries in Greece, as well as the Eastern Catholic Church and the Old Believers ...

The Gregorian calendar, based on the solar calendar that marks December 31 as the end of the year, was first introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in October 1582. His decision was likely based on the fact ...