Here’s why Easter falls a little later than usual this year, on 4/20, and how the mid-April day became an unofficial holiday for weed smokers.

St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in Olyphant celebrated Forgiveness Sunday on March 2, the last Sunday before Lent.

Church leaders push for a common Easter date, as they seek to bridge centuries-old divisions between Eastern and Western ...

In 2025, all Christians will rejoice on the same Easter Sunday. The last time Catholics and Orthodox Christians celebrated ...

Fact checked by Karen CilliGrowing up Greek American, the question, "when is Orthodox Easter this year?" always popped up ...

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

This message from Patriarch Bartholomew was read March 17, 2024 in Orthodox parishes ... the Sabbath and the day of Christ’s resurrection. The six Sundays of Lent are feast days.

The countdown to the Orthodox Easter is set to begin on March 3, when Greece celebrates “Kathara Deftera,” Greek for “Clean ...

For centuries, churches have used different methods to calculate the date of Easter. Rarely do they coincide. The search for ...

Using Emperor Constantine’s famous vision of the cross, Archbishop Elpidophoros presented Trump with a holy cross, calling it ...

March 25th is a significant date for Hellenism, as it marks both the anniversary of the Greek War of Independence and the ...

Greek Independence Day, on March 25, marks the beginning of the Greek revolt against Ottoman rule in 1821 and overlaps with the Feast of the Annunciation.