Orthodox Easter is associated primarily with the "Eastern" world, which includes parts of the Middle East, Greece, Russia and Serbia, and is marked slightly differently to the way it is celebrated ...

Greek Easter and Orthodox Easter always fall between April 4 and May 8 each year. This is because Orthodox believers' religious holidays are dictated by the Julian calendar, not the Gregorian ...

Pope Leo XIV received members of a delegation from the Eastern Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarchate in a June 28 audience.

Eastern and Western churches will celebrate Easter on the same day this year, while marking 1,700 years since the Council of Nicaea unified Christian doctrine. Skip to content Menu Today's paper ...

Usually Catholic and Protestant Easter falls a couple of weeks before Eastern Orthodox Easter, but this year all Christians will be celebrating at the same time.

Syriac Orthodox community members attend an Orthodox Easter mass at Kirklar Church in Mardin, Turkiye on 5 May, 2024. Source: Anadolu/Anadolu via Getty Images ...

Typically, the Catholic and Protestant churches dominant in the U.S. mark Easter days or even months ahead of Eastern Orthodox Christians, whose Easter is also known as Pascha. This year, ...

ISTANBUL (RNS) — This year, Eastern and Western churches will celebrate Easter on the same date — an occurrence that is increasingly rare but that some seek to make permanent.

What to know before attending Orthodox or Catholic Easter services this weekend. For the first time in almost 10 years, Christians of all kinds will celebrate Easter on the same day ...

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox Christians, was released from a Washington hospital Monday morning after an overnight stay early in his 12-day visit to ...