This year marks a special Easter for Australia's Christian community, with both Western and Orthodox churches marking the ...

Pope Francis has made greater unity with the Orthodox a priority of his pontificate; he has especially expressed his desire ...

Palm Sunday marks the last Sunday before Easter, and signals the beginning of Holy Week, an important period of prayer and ...

Holy Week is the holiest week of the Greek Orthodox Church, symbolizing the passion, death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

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Easter on April Fools' Day is a thing. One of the most important holidays in Christianity, here's when the two coincided ...

Easter 2025 will be celebrated on April 20, but the date isn’t fixed. It is determined using a centuries-old formula tied to ...

April Fools' Day ... Feast of Fools had its origins 300 years before, in the 1100s, and continued as a tradition well into the 16th century,” Atlas Obscura says. “It was memorialized in ...

Easter Sunday, one of the most important Christian holidays, and 4/20, an unofficial weed smokers' holiday, fall on the same day ... Eastern Orthodox or not. The Eastern Orthodox Church uses ...

Easter, the greatest festival of the Christian church, com­memorates the resurrection of Jesus. It is a movable feast; that is, it is not always held on the same date. In AD 325 the church council of ...