What Is Greek Orthodox Easter? Greek Orthodox Easter is the conclusion of Greek Orthodox's "Great Lent," a strict 40-day period of fasting. Great Lent ends on Lazarus Saturday, which is when ...

A Palestinian Greek Orthodox girl lights a candle during the Easter morning mass celebration at the church of Saint Porphyrius in Gaza City (AFP) ...

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.

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 ...

Orthodox Easter: Who celebrates in Australia and why it's (usually) on a different date This year, Australian communities who follow Christian Orthodox faiths will mark Easter on 20 April ...

In 2025, Western Catholics and Eastern Orthodox Christians will share a common Easter date, April 20 — for the first time since 2017.

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

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.

This year, Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox Christians will mark Easter on the same day, Sunday, April 20. The shared date is relatively rare due to the different calendars used by Western and ...

Here’s when Ash Wednesday, Lent, Good Friday and Easter 2025 are and why the dates they fall on change every year.