War chaplain Rev. Anatoliy Raychynets has shared how he helped troops on the frontline resisting Russia's invasion celebrate ...

Last year I couldn’t make it because Orthodox Easter fell around the same time as finals. This year, work got the best of me, making it too difficult to escape for the weekend. When I was younger, ...

(AP Photo/Brian Inganga) An elderly woman prepares her Easter baskets to be blessed during celebration of the Orthodox Easter in Krasne village, Ukraine, on Sunday, April 20, 2025. (AP Photo ...

The trio played a Greek Orthodox game called Tsougrisma, a tradition observed in Greek culture where players crack red eggs at Easter, symbolizing Christ's resurrection, per the American Religious ...

Easter is considered the most important holiday in the Christian liturgical calendar. This year, in a rare occurrence, the holiday fell on the same day for both Catholic and Orthodox Christians ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — For more than 400 years, Catholic and Orthodox churches have used different ways to determine the date of Easter. But this Easter marked a special moment for Christians ...

During an Easter service at Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral held on Saturday night, Russian Orthodox Church head Patriarch Kirill referred to the holiday as a “victory day.” “Easter is a victory ...

This year, Easter is being celebrated on the same day by Catholics and Orthodox Christians. Easter at the Vatican traditionally involves a Mass and the pope's Urbi et Orbi blessing (Latin for "to ...

open image in gallery An elderly woman prepares her Easter baskets to be blessed during celebration of the Orthodox Easter in Krasne village, Ukraine, on Sunday (AP) "However, there were no air ...

The Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic observances overlap only every three to four years thanks to different church calendars — and different lunar cycle calculations. It was a meeting of East ...

Several explosions were reported early on Sunday in Russian-controlled Donetsk, casting doubt over a Kremlin-declared Easter ceasefire that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed as a façade ...

This Easter, Orthodox and Western Christians find themselves united in a rare occurrence: celebrating the resurrection of Christ on the same day. In the Middle East, the birthplace of Christianity ...